ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,363, issued on July 15, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrode binder for a nonaqueous secondary battery and nonaqueous secondary battery electrode" was invented by Yuta Kawahara (Tatsuno, Japan), Tomonori Kurata (Kawasaki, Japan) and Mitsuru Hanasaki (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode binder for a nonaqueous secondary battery; and a nonaqueous secondary battery electrode. The electrode binder for a nonaqueous secondary battery contains a resin component and is water-soluble. The surface free energy GammaB at 23deg C. is 70 mJ/m2 or less, and the dipole component GammaPB of the surface free energy i...