ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,223, issued on June 23, was assigned to CENTRAL GLASS Co. LTD. (Ube, Japan).

"Nonaqueous electrolytic solution, nonaqueous electrolytic solution battery, and compound" was invented by Susumu Iwasaki (Yamaguchi, Japan), Miyuki Yamauchi (Yamaguchi, Japan), Mikihiro Takahashi (Yamaguchi, Japan) and Takayoshi Morinaka (Yamaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing: (I) at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by General Formula (1) described in the specification (for example, a compound represented by the following Formula (1a)) and a compound r...