ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,196, issued on June 24, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Positive electrode for secondary battery, and secondary battery" was invented by Swati Devi (Kyoto, Japan), Yuta Hirano (Kyoto, Japan), Shinichi Katayama (Kyoto, Japan), Takaaki Matsui (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoyo Ooyama (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer includes N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone. Where the positive electrode activ...