US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO METAL MINING, PANASONIC ENERGY on Nov. 3 for "Positive electrode active material for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,095, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO METAL MINING Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Positive electrode active material for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery" was invented by Yuki Koshika (Niihama, Japan) and Haruki Kaneda (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive electrode active material that can achieve high thermal stability at low cost is provided.Provided is, for example, a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, the positive electrode active material containing a lithium-nickel composite oxide having a hexagonal...