US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 15 for "Coated active material, electrode material, and battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,481, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Coated active material, electrode material, and battery" was invented by Kazuya Hashimoto (Aichi, Japan), Yuta Sugimoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Izuru Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated active material includes an active material and a coating layer coating at least a part of the surface of the active material. The coating layer includes a first coating material. The coated active material has a supernatant NV rate of less than 23%, where the supernatant NV rate is a ratio of the NV value of a supernatant...