US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 20 for "Lithium secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,231, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lithium secondary battery" was invented by Tetsuyuki Okano (Osaka, Japan) and Hajime Nishino (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium secondary battery including: a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector that faces the positive electrode; a separator disposed therebetween; and a non-aqueous electrolyte having lithium ion conducti...