US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Positive electrode active material for lithium-ion battery, production method therefor, and lithium-ion battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,194, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Yokohama, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material for lithium-ion battery, production method therefor, and lithium-ion battery" was invented by So Yubuchi (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Jun Yoshida (Mishima, Japan) and Naoaki Yabuuchi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion battery, wherein the positive electrode active material has small volume changes during charging and discharging, and when applied to a battery, can imp...