US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Aug. 18 for "Positive electrode material and secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,180, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode material and secondary battery" was invented by Hiroshi Kawada (Hyogo, Japan), Kosuke Kuroda (Kyoto, Japan) and Atsushi Fukui (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode material for secondary batteries, the material including a Li-rich transition metal oxide having a lithium-to-oxygen atomic ratio: Li/O of 0.8 or more, and a dicarboxylic acid and/or an anhydride of the dicarboxylic acid."

The patent was filed on Feb. 21, 2019, under Application No. 17/262,482.

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