ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,820, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Negative electrode for alkaline storage battery and alkaline storage battery including the negative electrode" was invented by Yuki Ehara (Tokyo), Jun Ishida (Tokyo), Shota Ohata (Tokyo), Akira Saguchi (Tokyo) and Masaru Kihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode for an alkaline storage battery that achieves both an improvement in cycle life and an improvement in low temperature discharge characteristics, and an alkaline storage battery including the negative electrode are disclosed. The negative electrode for an alkaline storage battery includes a neg...