US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Aug. 18 for "Negative electrode active material, negative electrode, and secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,182, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Negative electrode active material, negative electrode, and secondary battery" was invented by Hironobu Kubota (Kyoto, Japan) and Yosuke Koike (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a negative electrode active material for a battery, exhibiting sufficiently excellent initial charge-discharge efficiency and cycle characteristics by suppressing physical deterioration of a film due to expansion and contraction of a core material. The negative electrode active material for a battery, comprising: a negative electrod...