US Patent Issued to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL on Sept. 23 for "Negative electrode active material, negative electrode and method for producing them" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,620, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Negative electrode active material, negative electrode and method for producing them" was invented by Takakazu Hirose (Annaka, Japan), Reiko Sakai (Takasaki, Japan), Yusuke Osawa (Annaka, Japan), Takumi Matsuno (Annaka, Japan), Kohta Takahashi (Takasaki, Japan), Katsunori Nishiura (Chiba, Japan) and Nan Fang (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode active material including negative electrode active material particles, wherein the negative electrode active material particles contain silicon compound particles containing a silic...