ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,395, issued on March 31, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Lithium primary battery and liquid non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium primary battery" was invented by Kohei Saito (Osaka Fu, Japan), Takayuki Nakatsutsumi (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Atsushi Fukui (Hyogo Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium primary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a liquid non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode material mixture including LixMnO2 where 0less than equal toxless than equal to0.05. The negative electrode contains a...