ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,162, issued on July 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Masanobu Takeuchi (Osaka, Japan), Manabu Takijiri (Osaka, Japan), Yoshio Kato (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiro Shiraga (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery (10) according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is provided with: an electrode body (14) which is obtained by winding a positive electrode (30) and a negative electrode (40), with a separator (50) being interposed therebetween; a nonaqueous electrolyte; and a b...