ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,774, issued on June 2, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Adhesive film for metal terminal, metal terminal with adhesive film, and battery" was invented by Kenta Hiraki (Tokyo), Jun Tanaka (Tokyo), Takahiro Kato (Tokyo), Atsuko Takahagi (Tokyo) and Rikiya Yamashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This adhesive film for a metal terminal is interposed between a metal terminal electrically connected to an electrode of a battery element and a wrapping material sealing the battery element and is provided with at least one resin layer having a polyolefin backbone. When the adhesive film for the metal terminal is me...