US Patent Issued to MAXELL on Jan. 27 for "Positive electrode for alkaline batteries, and alkaline battery and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,185, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Positive electrode for alkaline batteries, and alkaline battery and method for producing the same" was invented by Yusuke Inoue (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihisa Hirose (Kyoto, Japan) and Takahiro Furutani (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The alkaline battery of the present invention includes, as power generation components, a positive electrode containing silver oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode, a separator, and an alkaline electrolyte solution. At least one of the power generation components contains tellurium or a compound o...