ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,956, issued on May 12, was assigned to I-TEN (Dardilly, France).

"Method for manufacturing batteries and battery obtained by said method" was invented by Fabien Gaben (Dardilly, France) and Frederic Cantin (Tassin la Demi-Lune, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery comprising at least one anode and at least one cathode, arranged on top of one another in an alternating manner, the battery comprising lateral edges and longitudinal edges, in which the anode comprises a current collector substrate, -at least one anode layer, and -optionally, a layer of an electrolyte material, and the cathode comprises: -a current collector substr...