ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,653, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inspection method, method of manufacturing secondary battery laminate, and method of manufacturing secondary battery" was invented by Yuzo Kitazawa (Tokyo) and Masanobu Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a new technique that can sufficiently suppress bonding defects by identifying application defect sites with a high accuracy when manufacturing a secondary battery laminate including battery members which are bonded together via an adhesive material. An inspection method of the present disclosure is an inspection method used upon...