ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,076, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery cells with reduced tearing of outer current collectors attached using ultrasonic welding" was invented by Yong Lu (Shanghai), Haijing Liu (Shanghai) and Teresa Jean Rinker (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell includes a plurality of electrodes including a plurality of anode electrodes and a plurality of cathode electrodes. The plurality of electrodes is arranged in one of a stacked architecture and a winding architecture. Each of the plurality of electrodes includes a current collector and active material arrange...