ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,627, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Battery with an asymmetric design and electronic devices with an asymmetric battery design" was invented by Liang Guo (San Jose, Calif.), Brian J. Haskins (Campbell, Calif.), Premanand Ramadass (San Mateo, Calif.), Ghazal Shoorideh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jamie N. Forslin (Cupertino, Calif.), He Li (Shenzhen, China), Abdifatah M. Mohamed (Cupertino, Calif.) and Liubin Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to batteries with an asymmetric design. At least some batteries described herein include two sections having different sha...