ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,549, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Secondary battery, secondary battery control system, and battery pack" was invented by Takumi Hiasa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery includes a partition, a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a positive electrode electrolytic solution, a negative electrode electrolytic solution, and a negative electrode capacity restoring electrode, a positive electrode capacity restoring electrode, or both. The partition is disposed between a positive electrode space and a negative electrode space, and allows an alkali meta...