US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on March 31 for "Method of manufacturing battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,408, issued on March 31, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing battery" was invented by Tomoyuki Yamada (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Hosokawa (Kako-gun, Japan) and Ryoichi Wakimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology for obtaining a battery including a wound electrode body with high productivity is provided. In a preferred aspect of the battery manufacturing method disclosed herein, the method includes: winding a separator, a first electrode, and a second electrode around a winding core to produce a wound body; molding the wound body into a flat shape; and arranging, in...