ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,905, issued on June 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Yasushi Taniguchi (Osaka, Japan), Kazutaka Nishikawa (Nara, Japan), Masahiro Nakajo (Osaka, Japan) and Masanori Kuroda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first pressure bonding roller 110 and a second pressure bonding roller 112 have a cylindrical shape. A first metal foil 200 and a second metal foil 202 are inserted between the first pressure bonding roller 110 and the second pressure bonding roller 112. The first metal foil 200 and the second metal foil 202 are pressure bo...