US Patent Issued to Apple on March 4 for "Non-rectangular metal batteries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,032, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Non-rectangular metal batteries" was invented by Hirotsugu Oba (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brian K. Shiu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael P. Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Xiao Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher R. Pasma (Redwood City, Calif.), Steven M. Labovitz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Katharine R. Chemelewski (Campbell, Calif.), Erik D. Gillow (Redwood City, Calif.), Joshua Walter (Cupertino, Calif.), Junhua Liu (Hayward, Calif.), Michael H. Tsai (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephan P. Abdo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery systems according to embodiments of the p...