ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,803, issued on June 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Secondary battery" was invented by Kenji Matsubara (Osaka, Japan), Nobuhiko Hojo (Osaka, Japan), Masanobu Takeuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Fukui (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery according to the present invention is provided with a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte solution; the electrolyte solution contains water and a lithium salt; the negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material; a silane coupling agent, which is reductively decomposed at a poten...