US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on April 7 for "Batteries with non-rectangular shapes for augmented reality devices, and systems and methods of use thereof" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,630, issued on April 7, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Batteries with non-rectangular shapes for augmented reality devices, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Tianren Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Bradley Spare (San Jose, Calif.), Karthik Kadirvel (Cupertino, Calif.), Jason Howard (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Wei Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example augmented-reality headset comprises a frame portion, a temple arm portion coupled with the frame portion, and a metal-encased battery cell having an exterior surface that defines a non-rectangular shape. The metal-...