ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,546, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Yoshinori Aoki (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Ogasawara (Osaka, Japan) and Shun Nomura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, wherein a positive electrode contains a lithium-transition metal composite oxide containing Ni, Al and Sr as a positive electrode active substance. In the lithium-transition metal composite oxide, the content of Ni is 80-95 mol ...