US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 17 for "Lithium secondary battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,510, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lithium secondary battery" was invented by Tomohiro Harada (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium secondary battery with a positive electrode active material including a composite oxide containing lithium and a transition metal. A molar ratio: MLi/MTM of a total lithium amount per unit area MLi in a positive electrode and a negative electrode to a transition metal amount per unit area MTM in the positive electrode is 1.1 or less. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector larger i...