ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,183, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery positive electrode and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Tomohiro Harada (Osaka, Japan), Noriko Fukamichi (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Ogasawara (Osaka, Japan) and Daizo Jito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The positive electrode mixture layer of this nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery positive electrode, which is one exemplary embodiment, contains a first lithium-transition-metal composite oxide represented by general formula LixNi1-y-zCoyMzO2 (in ...