ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,601, issued on March 3, was assigned to TeraWatt Technology Inc. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for a battery utilizing separate pressure homogenizing medium layers between a battery pouch and a plane jig" was invented by Ken Ogata (Tokyo), Yang Yang (Tokyo), Hajime Hoshi (Tokyo), Masatsugu Nakano (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Imoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell having a layered pressure homogenizing soft medium for liquid/solid state Li-ion rechargeable batteries. The battery cell of the present technology includes one or more battery pouches, a pressure mechanism external to the battery pouches that applies a pressure t...