ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,075, issued on May 6, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Method for producing an electrode sheet" was invented by Tomoyuki Uezono (Okazaki, Japan), Sokichi Okubo (Okazaki, Japan), Momoka Miyajima (Toyota, Japan), Nagisa Shimasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Masaki Watanabe (Seto, Japan) and Miyuki Matsuyama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an electrode sheet includes heating before pressing to heat the electrode sheet to soften or melt binder particles contained in an electrode mixture layer and roll-pressing the electrode sheet heated in ...