ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,787, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Secondary-battery negative electrode, method for manufacturing same, and secondary battery" was invented by Saifullah Badar (Osaka Fu, Japan), Takuji Tsujita (Osaka Fu, Japan), Keisuke Asaka (Osaka Fu, Japan), Hirotetsu Suzuki (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Motohiro Sakata (Osaka Fu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative electrode for a secondary battery includes a negative electrode mixture layer having a negative electrode active material, a first layer covering at least a portion of a surface of the negative electrode acti...