ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,500, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cathode material and battery" was invented by Tadaaki Matsumura (Shiga, Japan), Izuru Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuta Sugimoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cathode material including a cathode active material; a coating layer which coats at least a part of a surface of the cathode active material, and which includes a first solid electrolyte material; and a second solid electrolyte material. The first solid electrolyte material includes Li, M, and X; however, does not include sulfur. M includes a...