ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,194, issued on June 24, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrode for power storage devices and lithium-ion secondary battery" was invented by Takuya Aoki (Tokyo), Shuji Higashi (Tokyo), Miyuki Yanagida (Tokyo), Makoto Endo (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Kanbayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode for power storage devices includes: a resin layer; a conductive layer containing copper and being disposed on the resin layer; and an active material layer containing graphite and being disposed on the conductive layer, wherein when measured by an X-ray diffraction method from a surface of the active material layer, a peak inte...