ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,759, issued on June 3, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrolytic solution, lithium-sulfur secondary battery, and module" was invented by Tomoya Hidaka (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiko Kuwajima (Osaka, Japan) and Shigeaki Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolytic solution, a lithium-sulfur secondary battery including the electrolytic solution and a module. The lithium-sulfur secondary battery has a positive electrode or a negative electrode containing a sulfur-containing electrode active material containing at least one selected from simple sulfur, lithium polysulfides (Li2Sn: 1less than eq...