US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 15 for "Electrode, battery cell, cell stack, and redox flow battery system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,367, issued on July 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode, battery cell, cell stack, and redox flow battery system" was invented by Kousuke Shiraki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode includes a carbon fiber, wherein the carbon fiber has a first region including a surface of the carbon fiber, when a cross section of the carbon fiber is analyzed by electron energy loss spectroscopy, the first region has peaks both around 285 eV and around 530 eV, and the first region is provided up to 10% of a diameter of the carbon fiber from the surface toward a center."

The patent wa...