ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,591, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode for secondary batteries, and secondary battery" was invented by Tatsuya Akira (Osaka, Japan) and Junichi Sugaya (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present disclosure is to improve the cycle characteristics of a secondary battery. An electrode for secondary batteries according to one example of the embodiments of the present disclosure is provided with a core body and a mixture layer that is formed on the surface of the core body. The mixture layer comprises a plurality of high-density regions and a plurality of lo...