ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,329, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode for capacitor including flaky carbon, manufacturing method therefor, and capacitor" was invented by Chiho Nobumori (Hyogo Ken, Japan), Kenichi Ezaki (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Hitoshi Ishimoto (Hyogo Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a capacitor electrode including a conductive substrate and a flaky carbon that is electrically connected to the conductive substrate, the flaky carbon having an oxygen content of less than 5 mass % and a three-dimensional structure, wherein it is desired that the oxygen con...