ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,154, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Energy storage device and method for manufacturing energy storage device" was invented by Miho Sasaki (Tokyo), Shinichi Mikami (Tokyo), Wakako Sentou (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Nakada (Tokyo), Jun Fukuda (Tokyo) and Atsushi Saitou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage device includes an electrode body and an outer packaging. The outer packaging seals the electrode body. The outer packaging is constituted by a film-like outer packaging member. The outer packaging includes a first sealing portion sealed by joining surfaces that face each other in a s...