ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,368, issued on April 15, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, battery module and battery system using the same" was invented by Hikaru Yoshikawa (Tsukuba, Japan) and Yuichi Sabi (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode is for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The positive electrode includes: a current collector including a current collector main body formed of a metal material; and an active material layer on the current collector. The active material layer include...