ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,923, issued on May 27, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material, method for manufacturing positive electrode active material, and secondary battery" was invented by Mayumi Mikami (Kanagawa, Japan), Aya Uchida (Tochigi, Japan), Yumiko Yoneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Momma (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Teruaki Ochiai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode active material having high capacity and excellent cycle performance is provided. The positive electrode active material has a small difference in a crystal...