US Patent Issued to ZapGo on March 18 for "Self-supporting carbon electrode" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,017, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZapGo Ltd (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Self-supporting carbon electrode" was invented by Marappa Gounder Rajendran (Harwell, Great Britain), Myrsini Kyriaki Antoniou (Harwell, Great Britain), Stephen David Voller (Harwell, Great Britain) and Hugh Liam Sutherland (Harwell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-supporting supercapacitor electrode adapted for attachment to an electrical circuit characterised by comprising a rigid or mechanically resilient, electrically-conductive sheet consisting essentially of a matrix of from 70-90% by weight of activated carbon and 5 to 25% by weig...