ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,089, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Battery electrode binder material" was invented by Michael H Mitchell (Edina, Minn.), Michael C. Dadalas (Burghausen, Germany), Mark W. Muggli (Emmerting, Germany), Helmut Traunspurger (Julbach, Germany), Andre Streiter (Muehldorf, Germany), Kevin W. Eberman (St. Paul, Minn.) and Brandon A. Bartling (Woodbury, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing a dry powder blend co-coagulating conductive carbon black particles and fibrillizable polytetrafluoroethylene particles from an aqueous dispersion and drying the co-coagulate are des...