ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,167, issued on July 22, was assigned to Artience Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOYOCOLOR Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Conductive material dispersion, method for producing the same, and composition for secondary battery electrode, electrode film, secondary battery, and vehicle using conductive material dispersion" was invented by Yu Morita (Tokyo), Tetsuro Izumiya (Tokyo) and Yu Aotani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a conductive material dispersion including: a conductive material containing at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a carbon nanotube and carbon black; carboxymethyl cellulose or its salt; and water. The c...