ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,274, issued on March 17, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laminate for secondary battery and secondary battery" was invented by Masanobu Sato (Tokyo) and Tasuku Ogihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminate for a secondary battery includes an electrode and a separator that are stacked via an adhesive material. For this laminate, when a value measured for shear peel strength between the electrode and the separator with varying temperature is taken to be A (mN/mm2), a value of maximum heat shrinkage force for the separator determined by thermomechanical analysis is taken to be B (mN/mm2), and a temperature at which heat...