ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,767, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Masaki Hirase (Aichi, Japan), Shuji Ito (Nara, Japan), Seiji Nishiyama (Osaka, Japan), Kunihiko Mineya (Osaka, Japan), Tadaaki Matsumura (Shiga, Japan) and Yusuke Ito (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery of the present disclosure includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector ...