US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 27 for "Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,872, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Manabu Takijiri (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Ogasawara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a positive electrode includes a lithium transition metal composite oxide that contains Ni at 85 mol % or more with respect to the total number of moles of metal elements excluding Li, and a negative electrode includes graphite particles having an internal porosity of 1-5%. The N/P ratio is 1.00-1.05, where P is the charging...