US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, TOYOTA BATTERY on July 14 for "Method for evaluating a power storage device and method for producing the power storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,102, issued on July 14, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and TOYOTA BATTERY Co. LTD. (Shizuoka-Ken, Japan).

"Method for evaluating a power storage device and method for producing the power storage device" was invented by Hiroaki Ikeda (Toyota, Japan) and Ayaka Nagano (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating a connection resistance between a positive current collecting part of an electrode body of a battery and a positive inner terminal member connected thereto includes: changing a power storage device with a first battery voltage by CC...