ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,673, issued on April 7, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Battery pack and electronic device" was invented by Ken Sato (Kyoto, Japan), Kenichi Ozawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Masashi Sato (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a secondary battery and a circuit board, in which the secondary battery includes a metal exterior part, a first external terminal disposed at a center part of an end surface of the metal exterior part, and a second external terminal disposed so as to surround a periphery of the first external terminal, and the circuit board includes a first connection part con...