US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BATTERY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Oct. 20 for "Rechargeable battery" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,909, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA BATTERY Co. LTD. (Kosai, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Rechargeable battery" was invented by Masaya Ogura (Hamamatsu, Japan), Shota Uchiyama (Kosai, Japan) and Hiroaki Ikeda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a rechargeable battery that limits damage to a separator, a positive connector is configured to be bent at an acute angle in a thickness-wise direction in a bending region, which is defined between a first position and a second position, on a boundary position between a flat surface region and a s...