ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,871, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Positive electrode active material and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same" was invented by Masaya Saito (Kasai, Japan), Takatoshi Higuchi (Kakogawa, Japan) and Akihiro Tabushi (Kasai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a positive electrode active material that can provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with high gas generation suppressing performance during storage and high output characteristics. The positive electrode active material includes monoparticulate first lithium composite oxide particles an...