US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 3 for "Positive electrode active material for secondary battery, and secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,798, issued on June 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This positive electrode active material is for a secondary battery and contains a lithium transition metal complex oxide. The lithium transition metal complex oxide is represented by general formula LixMnyNizSbaObFc (x+y+z+aless than equal tob+c=2, 1less than equal toxless than equal to1.2, 0.4less than equal toyless than equal to0.8, 0les...