US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 17 for "Method of manufacturing a metal film formed on a portion of a conductor exposed from an exterior body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,135, issued on March 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing a metal film formed on a portion of a conductor exposed from an exterior body" was invented by Takahiro Kumakawa (Kyoto, Japan) and Renki Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a solid electrolytic capacitor according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a step of exposing a cathode body end portion, which is a portion of a cathode body, from an exterior body covering the cathode body, which is a conductor, and forming a contact electr...