ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,109, issued on June 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery" was invented by Jiro Muratsu (Osaka, Japan) and Hirotaka Ogino (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This battery comprises an electrode body, an outer package, an opening sealing element, and an auxiliary electrode. The auxiliary electrode has: a first joint part that is welded to an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical part of the outer package; a plate-like first upward extension part that extends from the first joint part toward the side of an open end of the outer package; and a plate-like extern...