US Patent Issued to Medtronic on July 14 for "Current collector tab placement to reduce battery shut down time" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,171, issued on July 14, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Current collector tab placement to reduce battery shut down time" was invented by Parthasarathy M. Gomadam (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell comprising a first electrode separated from a second electrode by a shutdown separator. The first electrode can comprise a first current collector substrate having a first active material composite layered thereon. The second electrode can comprise a second current collector substrate parallel to the first current collector substrate. The second current collector substrate can have a seco...