ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,243, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and ONO ROLL Co. LTD. (Hitachiomiya, Japan).

"Roll press apparatus for manufacturing compressed strip-shaped electrode plates" was invented by Kengo Haga (Nagoya, Japan), Tomofumi Hirukawa (Nisshin, Japan), Kota Nakamura (Himeji, Japan), Tomoya Suzuki (Seto, Japan), Hideji Naito (Tajimi, Japan), Yoshihide Enomoto (Nagakute, Japan), Shigeru Mori (Hitachi, Japan) and Katsuhiko Yanai (Hitachiomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll press apparatus forms a compressed strip-shaped electrode plate by roll-pres...