ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,794, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Secondary battery positive electrode active material, and secondary battery" was invented by Hiroshi Kawada (Hyogo, Japan), Kosuke Kuroda (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Fukui (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This lithium transition metal composite oxide, which configures a secondary battery positive electrode active material, is a composite oxide represented by general formula LiAlpha[LixMnyCozMe(1-x-y-z)]O2 (in the formula, Me is at least one species selected from Ni, Fe, Ti, Bi and Nb, and 0.5greater thanAlphagreater...