ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,867, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte solution, electrochemical device precursor, electrochemical device, and method of producing electrochemical device" was invented by Yusuke Shimizu (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-aqueous electrolyte solution contains a chain sulfone compound (I) represented by Formula (I) and a cyclic sulfone compound (II) represented by Formula (II). The content of the chain sulfone compound (I) is from 0.01% by mass to 10% by mass with respect to the total amount of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. In Formula (I), each of R11 a...