US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS, PANASONIC ENERGY on Aug. 12 for "Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,082, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for producing same" was invented by Miki Mizawa (Hyogo, Japan), Kaoru Nagata (Osaka, Japan), Masanori Maekawa (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Kinoshita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This cathode active material for a secondary battery using a non-aqueous electrolyte includes nickel-rich lithium transition-metal oxide, exhibits a hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) peak of 1,560 to 1,565 eV in bind...