ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,146, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Film forming device, manufacturing method of electrode foil for electrolytic capacitor, and manufacturing method for electrolytic capacitor" was invented by Mitsuhisa Yoshimura (Osaka Fu, Japan), Naomi Kurihara (Osaka Fu, Japan), Miwa Ogawa (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Akihiro Yamaguchi (Nara Ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film-forming device disclosed is a film-forming device for forming a film on a metal foil having a porous portion on a main surface thereof by a gas phase method, and includes a film-forming region in ...