ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,656, issued on May 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Liquid resistant battery pack" was invented by Pengchuan Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Arun D. Chawan (Berkeley, Calif.), Dominic Pitera (San Francisco), Karl A. Gazdowski (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kyle Tse (Fremont, Calif.), Nath B. Chhiv (Alameda, Calif.), Nathan J. Bohney (Campbell, Calif.), Shreshtha U. Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Surojit Ganguli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve various battery packs. In general, the battery pack includes a plurality of layers and an enclosure enclosing the plurality of layers. A...