ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,265, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo) and MU IONIC SOLUTIONS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing lithium fluorosulfonate, lithium fluorosulfonate, nonaqueous electrolytic solution, and nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery" was invented by Daisuke Kawakami (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Tokuda (Ibaraki, Japan) and Masahiro Takehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing lithium fluorosulfonate which comprises reacting a lithium salt and fluorosulfonic acid in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein ...