US Patent Issued to Tokyo University of Science Foundation, TOSOH on Sept. 15 for "Binder for positive electrode of lithium ion battery, slurry for forming positive electrode mixture layer of lithium ion battery, positive electrode for lithium ion battery, and lithium ion battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,500, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Tokyo University of Science Foundation (Tokyo) and TOSOH Corp. (Shunan, Japan).

"Binder for positive electrode of lithium ion battery, slurry for forming positive electrode mixture layer of lithium ion battery, positive electrode for lithium ion battery, and lithium ion battery" was invented by Tatsuo Horiba (Tokyo), Kei Kubota (Tokyo), Yoshinari Abe (Tokyo), Asako Oishi (Tokyo), Shinichi Komaba (Tokyo), Hiroshi Inoue (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Eiichi Tougou (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a binder for positive electrode of lithium ion battery which...