ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,443, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Secondary battery electrode plate and secondary battery using same" was invented by Hiroyuki Tajima (Hyogo, Japan) and Tetsuya Sato (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a highly reliable secondary battery electrode plate; and a secondary battery using same. The electrode plate is a positive electrode plate for a secondary battery, the positive electrode plate having a metallic positive electrode core body and a positive electrode active material layer formed on both surfaces of the positive electrode core body, wherein the positive ...