ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,167, issued on July 14, was assigned to UBE Corp. (Ube, Japan).

"Polyimide binder precursor composition, and power storage device using same" was invented by Keisuke Morimoto (Ube, Japan), Nobu Iizumi (Ube, Japan), Shohei Inoue (Ube, Japan) and Sousuke Honma (Ube, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyimide binder from which a high-capacity power storage device, which has a small irreversible capacity and a high initial charge/discharge efficiency and is lightweight, can be obtained. The polyimide binder precursor composition is a polyimide binder precursor composition for a power storage device electrode, and includes a reactio...