ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,257, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Central Glass Co Ltd. (Ube, Japan).

"Nonaqueous electrolytic solution" was invented by Mikihiro Takahashi (Yamaguchi, Japan), Takayoshi Morinaka (Yamaguchi, Japan) and Wataru Kawabata (Yamaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing a nonaqueous organic solvent, a solute, a specific silicon compound (A), a specific borate (B), and a specific imide salt (C), in which WB/WA, which is a ratio of a content WB of the borate (B) based on mass to a content WA of the silicon compound (A) based on mass, is 1.5 or more and 3 or less, and WC/WA, whic...