ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,592, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electrode, electrochemical element, liquid composition, and method for producing electrode" was invented by Daisuke Nose (Kanagawa, Japan), Minehide Kusayanagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryuji Higashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohji Matsuoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuu Zama (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Saiga (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoya Ohmura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode is provided that includes a current collector, an electrode mixture layer on the current collector, and an insulating layer on the electrode mixture layer. The electrode mixture layer includ...