ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,642, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).

"Cubic crystal alkali metal manganate nanoparticle production method and cubic crystal LiMnO2 nanoparticles produced using same" was invented by Masafumi Nakaya (Tokyo), Takuya Kazama (Tokyo), Wataru Tamura (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Miyake (Tokyo), Atsushi Muramatsu (Miyagi, Japan) and Kiyoshi Kanie (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiMnO2 production method includes generating cubic crystal LiMnO2 nanoparticles by adding an organic solvent, manganese oxide nanoparticles, and lithium amide in a reaction vessel and hea...