US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 10 for "Positive electrode active material for secondary battery, and secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,868, issued on June 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material for secondary battery, and secondary battery" was invented by Kosuke Kuroda (Osaka, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Hibino (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a lithium-transition metal composite oxide. The lithium-transition metal composite oxide is represented by the general formula LiAlpha[LixMnyCozMe(1-x-y-z)]O2 (in the formula, Me is at least one selected from Ni, Fe, Ti, Bi, and Nb, 0.5greater thanAlphagreater than1, ...