ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,559, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TOYO ALUMINIUM K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode material for aluminum electrolytic capacitors and method for producing same" was invented by Toshifumi Taira (Osaka, Japan), Kazuya Fujimoto (Osaka, Japan), Shinya Sone (Osaka, Japan), Katsumi Nakashima (Osaka, Japan) and Ken Wada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode material for aluminum electrolytic capacitors is disclosed, including a sintered body of at least one powder selected from the group consisting of an aluminum powder and an aluminum alloy powder on at least one surface of an aluminum foil substrate or an aluminum a...