US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on May 12 for "Positive electrode material and battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,927, issued on May 12, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode material and battery" was invented by Izuru Sasaki (Aichi, Japan), Yoshiaki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan) and Kazuya Hashimoto (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode material in one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a positive electrode active material; and a first solid electrolyte that covers the surface of the positive electrode active material. The first solid electrolyte contains Li, M1, O, and X1. M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb and Ta. X1 i...