US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 20 for "Anode active material, alkaline storage battery, and method for producing anode active material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,234, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Anode active material, alkaline storage battery, and method for producing anode active material" was invented by Makio Kon (Mishima, Japan), Hideki Iba (Toyota, Japan), Yukinari Kotani (Gotemba, Japan), Naotaka Sawada (Fuji, Japan), Tomoya Matsunaga (Susono, Japan), Hiroshi Nishiyama (Okazaki, Japan), Hiroshi Suyama (Mishima, Japan) and Masashi Kodama (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode active material with excellent capacity properties. The present disclosure achieves the object by pr...