ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,891, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery positive electrode and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Kohei Kintsu (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Ko (Osaka, Japan), Natsumi Goto (Hyogo, Japan), Keiichi Takahashi (Hyogo, Japan), Fumiharu Niina (Hyogo, Japan), Sho Tsuruta (Osaka, Japan), Ryo Hanazaki (Toyoake, Japan) and Akira Tsujiko (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery positive electrode that includes a positive electrode core and a...