US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Oct. 6 for "Secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,963, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Takuya Nakashima (Kyoto, Japan), Takeshi Hayashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Hironobu Kubota (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a secondary battery including an electrode including an electrode active material and another electrode-constituting material other than the electrode active material. In the secondary battery, at least a part of the electrode active material is covered with a covering material, and at least a part of the another electrode-constituting material is also covered with the covering...