ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,768, issued on July 1, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Dispersant for power storage device electrode" was invented by Taiki Fukuda (Wakayama, Japan), Hideki Goto (Wakayama, Japan), Akito Itoi (Wakayama, Japan) and Kazuo Oki (Wakayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a dispersant for an electrode of a power storage device. The dispersant contains a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (1), where a, b, and c each represent a mole fraction, provided that a+b+c=1, andc satisfy the relationship expressed by 0.50greater thanb+cless than equal to1.00 and 0.50less ...