ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,418, issued on April 21, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Metal can battery with stepped enclosure" was invented by Ankur Gupta (Redwood City, Calif.), Karthik Kadirvel (Cupertino, Calif.), Bradley Spare (San Jose, Calif.) and Tianren Xu (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Can battery cells are described. The can battery cell includes a battery cell core that is housed in a rigid enclosure. The enclosure can be made of metal or other rigid material. A front face of the enclosure includes an anode tab and a cathode tab extending from the front face. A circuit module is electrically ...