ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,017, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Conductive paste for electrode formation" was invented by Tetsuya Kimura (Aira, Japan), Nihiro Utsumi (Kirishima, Japan) and Yusuke Azuma (Kirishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive paste for electrode formation contains metal particles, a binder, a metal oxide additive, and a solvent. The metal oxide additive includes a metal oxide having, in an Ellingham diagram, a higher level of standard Gibbs energy of formation than carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide at a temperature of 500 to 1000deg C."
The patent was filed on July 14, 2022, under Applicati...