ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,931, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Shinya Mori (Hyogo, Japan), Syunsuke Natsumeda (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuya Akira (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that can suppress reductions in rapid charge cycle characteristics. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode has a n...