ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,317, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Exterior material for power storage device, method for manufacturing same, and power storage device" was invented by Masahiro Tatsuzawa (Tokyo) and Jun Kageyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This exterior material for a power storage device is configured from a laminate comprising at least a surface coating layer, a base layer, a barrier layer, and a heat sealing resin layer in order from the outside, and moreover is such that a logarithmic decrement triangleE at 60deg C. in a rigid body pendulum measurement of the outside surface of the surface coat...