US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA on June 23 for "Solid solution, electrode active material, electrode and secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,194, issued on June 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA (Osaka, Japan).

"Solid solution, electrode active material, electrode and secondary battery" was invented by Atsushi Sakuda (Sakai, Japan), Yusuke Kawasaki (Sakai, Japan), Akitoshi Hayashi (Sakai, Japan) and Masahiro Tatsumisago (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide an electrode active material having a novel structure, said electrode active material enabling Li2S to be used as an electrode. The problem is solved by a solid solution with an antifluorite crystal structure comprising Li, Cu, and S as main constituents."

The paten...