US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 17 for "Lithium ion battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,187, issued on March 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lithium ion battery" was invented by Nanami Takeda (Osaka, Japan), Yukihiro Oki (Osaka, Japan), Kazuko Asano (Osaka, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Hibino (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This lithium ion battery comprises a positive electrode having a positive electrode mixture layer that contains a positive electrode active material, and a negative electrode having a negative electrode mixture layer that contains a negative electrode active material; and this lithium ion battery is charged and discharged by the movement ...