US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS, PANASONIC ENERGY on April 7 for "Cathode active material for non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,603, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cathode active material for non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary battery and non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Yoshinori Aoki (Osaka, Japan), Shun Nomura (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Ogasawara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cathode active material for a non-aqueous-electrolyte secondary battery, the cathode active material containing a lithium composite oxide that has a layered structure containing a Li layer and that is represented by general formula LiaNiAlpha...