ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,979, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Conductive material and battery" was invented by Heidy Hodex Visbal Mendoza (Nagoya, Japan) and Masaru Kubota (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The conductive material is used for the positive electrode of the battery. The conductive material includes a substrate and a film. The film covers at least a portion of the surface of the substrate. The substrate comprises a conductive carbon material. The film includes a glass network forming element and oxygen."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2, 2023, under Application No. 18/105,039.

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