ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,695, issued on April 22, was assigned to RESONAC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery, method of manufacturing negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery, negative electrode material slurry for lithium ion secondary battery, negative electrode for lithium ion secondary battery, and lithium ion secondary battery" was invented by Yoshiyuki Matsumoto (Tokyo), Takeshi Masayoshi (Tokyo), Takashi Sakamoto (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Tsuchiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery, including composite particles, each of the c...