ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,767, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Atsushi Kaiduka (Osaka, Japan) and Noriko Sugii (Tokushima, 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 capable of suppressing an internal short circuit of a battery due to an external impact in both a fully charged state and a non-fully charged state. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to o...