ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,251, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SSLM Co. LTD. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery functional layer" was invented by Shun Nakazawa (Niihama, Japan), Kensaku Horie (Niihama, Japan) and Mitsuki Ochiai (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery functional layer that has an improved cycle characteristic when an electrode with a great change in volume is used. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery functional layer in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure is configured such that an area ratio of pores each having a cross-sectional...