US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 4 for "Lithium secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,240, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lithium secondary battery" was invented by Shoshi Terada (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Akira Kano (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a lithium ion conductive nonaqueous electrolyte, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; on the negative electrode, a lithium metal deposits at the time of charging, the lithium metal dissolves in the nonaqueous electrolyte at the time of discharging; the nonaqueous ele...