ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,743, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Winding-type nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Shigeki Moriya (Osaka, Japan), Nobuhiro Sakitani (Tokushima, Japan) and Takaharu Morikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a winding-type nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which is capable of minimizing degradation of charge-discharge cycle characteristics. The winding-type nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention is provide with a negat...