US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Positive electrode, lithium-ion secondary battery, and method of producing positive electrode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,589, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Positive electrode, lithium-ion secondary battery, and method of producing positive electrode" was invented by Koji Torita (Nagoya, Japan), Takuya Asari (Osaka, Japan), Akihiro Ochiai (Toyonaka, Japan), Yusuke Fukumoto (Toyonaka, Japan) and Naoyuki Wada (Hirakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode includes at least a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer is formed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode...