ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,746, issued on June 9, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material, method for manufacturing the same, and secondary battery" was invented by Yohei Momma (Kanagawa, Japan), Jyo Saito (Kanagawa, Japan), Teruaki Ochiai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhei Narita (Tokyo), Kazuhito Machikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mayumi Mikami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a positive electrode active material that achieves high powder properties and high load resistance (e.g., rate performance and output resistance) when used in a l...