ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,151, issued on June 30, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and TOYOTA BATTERY .Co. LTD. (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

"Metal-resin composite and method for producing the same" was invented by Yozo Uchida (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ehara (Toyota, Japan), Yuki Sato (Toyota, Japan), Syoichi Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan), Masataka Asai (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Asano (Toyota, Japan), Masahiro Uchimura (Toyota, Japan), Yasuaki Nagano (Kosai, Japan) and Shigeru Matsumoto (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes a unit member in which a positive-electrode resin ...