US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on April 7 for "Battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,644, issued on April 7, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Battery" was invented by Yoshiichi Horikoshi (Kyoto, Japan), Daiki Nishiie (Kyoto, Japan), Hideaki Tokugawa (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiro Otsuka (Kyoto, Japan) and Naoto Akizuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes an electrode body having a winding structure, and an electrolyte solution. The electrode body and the electrolyte solution are accommodated in a case. The electrode body includes: a positive electrode that includes a positive electrode lead, and has a belt shape; a negative electrode that includes a negative elec...