ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,707, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SSLM Co. LTD. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer" was invented by Kensaku Horie (Niihama, Japan), Makoto Furukawa (Niihama, Japan) and Takahiro Kuwata (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer which is capable of improving a capacity maintenance ratio shown when a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is repeatedly subjected to a charge-discharge cycle. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery porous layer contains at least one type of a resin having an amide bond, and an ...