US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMNT on April 8 for "Halide production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,752, issued on April 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMNT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Halide production method" was invented by Takashi Kubo (Hyogo, Japan), Yusuke Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Akihiro Sakai (Nara, Japan) and Akinobu Miyazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a halide includes heat-treating a mixed material in an inert gas atmosphere, the mixed material being a mixture of (NH4)aMX3+a and LiZ. The M includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, a lanthanoid, and Sc. The X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, I, a...