US Patent Issued to Samsung SDI on Sept. 22 for "Secondary battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,291, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Jin Young Moon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gun Gue Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sung Gwi Ko (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator; a can having a closed upper surface with a rivet opening therein and an open lower surface to accommodate the electrode assembly, the can being electrically connected to the first electrode plate; a rivet terminal in the rivet opening a...