US Patent Issued to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, TOSOH on June 3 for "Aqueous sodium ion secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,761, issued on June 3, was assigned to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan) and TOSOH Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Aqueous sodium ion secondary battery" was invented by Shigeto Okada (Fukuoka, Japan), Baowei Xie (Fukuoka, Japan), Toshiya Takahara (Tokyo), Wataru Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Masaki Okada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an aqueous sodium ion secondary battery which can achieve a high electrochemical capacity as compared with a known sodium ion secondary battery having an aqueous electrolytic solution.An aqueous sodium ion secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, an electr...