ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,928, issued on July 1, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Electrode and method of producing the electrode" was invented by Tomokazu Suetsugi (Ibaraki, Japan), Kazuki Sasahara (Ibaraki, Japan) and Motoki Haishi (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode includes a substrate film, a metal underlying layer, and a conductive carbon layer. A ratio (O/C) of oxygen to carbon at a place 4.5 nm away from a one-side surface of the conductive carbon layer toward the other side in the thickness direction is less than 0.01 where the ratio (O/C) of oxygen to carbon is measured using X-ray photoelectron spectroscop...