ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,288, issued on March 18, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo).

"Nonaqueous electrolytic solution for battery and lithium secondary battery" was invented by Kei Sugawara (Ichihara, Japan) and Satoko Fujiyama (Kisarazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a battery that includes a negative electrode active material containing graphite, the nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a battery containing a compound represented by the following Formula (1): in Formula (1), R represents a fluorine atom or a fluorinated hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms."

The patent was filed on M...