ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,807, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HORIBA Advanced Techno Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Ionic-liquid-containing polymer" was invented by Yasukazu Iwamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Manabu Shibata (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Ueda (Kyoto, Japan), Guillaume Jacques Bouilly (Kyoto, Japan) and Kohei Tsuji (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ionic-liquid-containing polymer capable of further downsizing a comparison electrode or the like and further improving the degree of freedom in design while reducing the manufacturing cost. The ionic-liquid-containing polymer used as a salt bridge of the comparison electrode contains an adhesive...