US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 11 for "Shaped electrode for arresting electrode movement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,337, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Shaped electrode for arresting electrode movement" was invented by Zuqin Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shabab Amiruddin (Pacifica, Calif.), Aswin Karthik Manohar (Newark, Calif.) and Hongxia Zhou (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery may include an enclosure that defines an interior volume, an electrode cell disposed within the interior volume, and a pair of retaining elements. The electrode cell may include a pair of notches formed therein. The pair of retaining elements may be disposed within volumes defined by the pair of notches. The pair of r...