ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,063, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrode active material layer manufacturing device, and electrode active material layer manufacturing method employing same" was invented by Yuto Hosono (Tokyo) and Takahiro Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production apparatus of an electrode active material layer comprises: a feeding unit feeding granulated particles; a conveying unit conveying the particles; a support unit supporting the particles; a squeegee unit spaced above the support unit and leveling the particles to form a granulated particle layer; a rolling unit rolling the granulated particle layer...