US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 20 for "Positive-electrode material and battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,425, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive-electrode material and battery" was invented by Hiroki Kamitake (Osaka, Japan), Seiji Nishiyama (Osaka, Japan) and Izuru Sasaki (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive-electrode material according to the present disclosure includes a positive-electrode active material and a coating layer covering the positive-electrode active material, wherein the coating layer contains lithium and carbon, the positive-electrode active material and the coating layer constitute a coated active material, and the ratio C/L...