ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,263, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Renata AG (Itingen, Switzerland).

"Cell battery" was invented by Xiaojun Wang (Zunzgen, Switzerland), Remo Frey (Titterten, Switzerland) and Pascal Haering (Muttenz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell includes a case designed to form a housing, an assembly of stacked electrodes placed inside the housing and including one or more units each having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator between the positive and negative electrodes and an electrolyte. The assembly is held together, and at least each negative electrode of the one or more units includes one or more no...