ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,507, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC TOYAMA Co. LTD. (Toyama, Japan).
"Metal sheet, battery, nickel-zinc battery and method for manufacturing metal sheet" was invented by Tomoharu Takeyama (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Okuno (Osaka, Japan), Masatoshi Majima (Toyama, Japan) and Hitoshi Tsuchida (Toyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flat metal sheet has a principal surface located on one side along a thickness direction, a plurality of struts, a node part where end portions of the plurality of struts are connected to one another, and a plurality of through h...