US Patent Issued to SAFT AMERICA on March 17 for "Lithium-ion secondary battery" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,195, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAFT AMERICA (Cockeysville, Md.).

"Lithium-ion secondary battery" was invented by Saori Tokuoka (Cockeysville, Md.), Thomas Greszler (Cockeysville, Md.), John Havranek (Cockeysville, Md.), Jian Dong (Cockeysville, Md.), Xilin Chen (Cockeysville, Md.) and Frank Cao (Cockeysville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithium-ion secondary battery, including (A) an anode including an anode active material; (B) a cathode including a cathode active material; (C) a separator; and (D) an electrolytic solution, the anode active material including (a1) about 5.0 to about 45.0 wt % natural graphite par...