ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,205, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Positive electrode active material and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the positive electrode active material" was invented by Kenji Yokoe (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a positive electrode active material capable of giving excellent output characteristics to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and suppressing an increase in resistance after cyclic charge and discharge. The positive electrode active material disclosed herein includes a core portion which contains a lithium transition metal co...