US Patent Issued to SHINSHU UNIVERSITY, MEIJO NANO CARBON on Jan. 27 for "Negative electrode active material for rechargeable battery, method for producing the same, and rechargeable battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,191, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHINSHU UNIVERSITY (Matsumoto, Japan) and MEIJO NANO CARBON Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Negative electrode active material for rechargeable battery, method for producing the same, and rechargeable battery" was invented by Nobuyuki Zettsu (Nagano, Japan), Katsuya Teshima (Nagano, Japan) and Hyemin Kim (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode active material for a rechargeable battery of the present invention includes a silicon composite composed of a silicon compound and at least one carbon material of graphite, non-graphitizable carbon, and soft carbon, a self-assembled...