US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 9 for "Lithium secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,887, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium secondary battery includes 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, lithium metal deposits during charging, and the lithium metal is dissolved during discharging; the negative electrode includes a negative electrode cur...