US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 22 for "Positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,692, issued on April 22, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Hiroshi Kawada (Hyogo, Japan), Akiko Murata (Osaka, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Hibino (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes a lithium transition metal complex oxide that has a spinel structure and that is represented by general formula Li1+AlphaNi0.5-xMn1.5-y-zGeyMx+zO4 (in the formula, 0l...