US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 29 for "Electrode and battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,685, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode and battery" was invented by Tatsuya Oshima (Osaka, Japan), Seiji Nishiyama (Osaka, Japan), Akira Kawase (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Nishio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode includes an active material layer that includes an active material, a solid electrolyte, and a binder and a current collector that includes a substrate and a coating layer coating the substrate and being in contact with the active material layer. The binder includes a block copolymer that includes two first blocks constitu...