US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 17 for "Method for producing nickel particles, method for producing nickel sulfate, and method for producing positive electrode active material for secondary batteries" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,126, issued on March 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing nickel particles, method for producing nickel sulfate, and method for producing positive electrode active material for secondary batteries" was invented by Hiroshi Minami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing nickel particles comprises the steps of: melting a nickel source to produce a melt; and powderizing molten nickel contained in the melt by an atomization method comprising atomizing a gas or an aqueous medium onto the melt, thereby producing nickel particles having pur...