ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,689, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Resin current collector and laminated battery" was invented by Shinji Nakanishi (Toyota, Japan) and Takuya Matsuyama (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The resin current collector of the present disclosure includes a base material resin, a conductive resin layer including a conductive filler dispersed in the base material resin, and a fluorine-based resin layer laminated on the conductive resin layer. Further, in the use of the resin current collector in the laminated battery, the current collector of at least one end face of the laminated batt...