US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 23 for "Positive-electrode material and battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,657, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive-electrode material and battery" was invented by Hiroki Kamitake (Osaka, Japan), Izuru Sasaki (Aichi, Japan) and Seiji Nishiyama (Osaka, 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 niobium and carbon, the positive-electrode active material and the coating layer constitute a coated active material, and the ratio ...