US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on July 21 for "Secondary battery, electronic device, and power tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,064, issued on July 21, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Secondary battery, electronic device, and power tool" was invented by Masashi Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Hirotaka Fukudome (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a secondary battery in which a negative electrode has a covered portion covered with a negative electrode active material covering portion and a negative electrode active material non-covered portion on a strip-shaped negative electrode foil, the negative electrode active material non-covered portion is joined to a negative electrode current collector plate at the othe...