ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,601, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrochemical element, method for producing same, and electrochemical device" was invented by Shuhei Uchida (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Yoshinori Satou (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical element includes a current collector, and an active material layer on the current collector, wherein the active material layer includes active material particles each having a lithium silicate composite particle including a lithium silicate phase and silicon particles dispersed therein, and a first coating that cove...