ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,293, issued on April 21, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing electrode for secondary battery, electrode, and secondary battery including electrode" was invented by Naohiro Mashimo (Toyota, Japan), Katsushi Enokihara (Toyota, Japan), Haruka Shionoya (Toyota, Japan) and Masanori Kitayoshi (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an electrode disclosed here includes a step in which a moisture powder formed of agglomerated particles; a step in which a coating film composed of the moisture powder is formed on an electrode current collector by using the moisture pow...