US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on June 9 for "Battery using layered double hydroxide-like compound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,780, issued on June 9, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Battery using layered double hydroxide-like compound" was invented by Shohei Yokoyama (Nagoya-City, Japan), Sho Yamamoto (Nagoya-City, Japan), Naohito Yamada (Tajimi-City, Japan) and Naoko Inukai (Nagoya-City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a battery including a positive electrode; a negative electrode; an electrolytic solution being an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution; and a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound provided so as to be in contact with the electrolytic solution. A metal compound containing at least one metal eleme...