US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 15 for "Secondary battery" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,608, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Yuka Nagata (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a secondary battery having a structure that can reduce a space for the secondary battery. The secondary battery includes: exterior bodies that look a quadrilateral as a whole in a plan view; an electrode body that is housed in the exterior bodies; cutout parts at respective two sides among the sides of the quadrilateral, the two sides being opposite to each other; a cathode terminal disposed in one of the cutout parts; and an anode terminal disposed in...