ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,407, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode foil for electrolytic capacitors, and electrolytic capacitor" was invented by Mitsuhisa Yoshimura (Osaka fu, Japan), Toshifumi Kadokawa (Osaka fu, Japan), Masami Tsubaki (Kyoto fu, Japan) and Yuji Otsuka (Yamaguchi ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode foil for an electrolytic capacitor includes a metal foil that includes a porous portion and a core portion continuous to the porous portion. The metal foil has a main surface in which pores in the porous portion are open. The porous portion includes a ...