ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,811, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery using same" was invented by Kosuke Kuroda (Osaka Fu, Japan), Youichirou Uka (Hyogo Ken, Japan), Koh Masahara (Hyogo Ken, Japan), Rina Yamamoto (Hyogo Ken, Japan) and Tomohiro Harada (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive-electrode current collector and a positive-electrode mixture layer on a surface of the positive...