ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,523, issued on May 19, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Takamitsu Tashita (Tokushima, Japan), Fumikazu Mizukoshi (Osaka, Japan) and Akihiro Katogi (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries is provided with: a negative electrode current collector; a first negative electrode mix layer arranged on a surface of the negative electrode current collector; and a second negative electrode mix layer arranged on a surfa...