US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 1 for "Positive electrode active material and battery including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,858, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material and battery including the same" was invented by Shuhei Uchida (Osaka, Japan), Ryuichi Natsui (Osaka, Japan) and Kensuke Nakura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode active material includes a first lithium composite oxide and a second lithium composite oxide that covers at least a part of the surface of the first lithium composite oxide. The first lithium composite oxide includes at least one selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, N, and S. The first lithium co...