US Patent Issued to Energizer Brands on Oct. 7 for "Electrochemical cell with improved high-rate discharge performance" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,160, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Energizer Brands LLC (St. Louis).

"Electrochemical cell with improved high-rate discharge performance" was invented by Weiwei Huang (Westlake, Ohio) and Frank J. Kerosky (North Olmsted, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alkaline electrochemical cell has a central cathode having a corresponding cathode current collector electrically connected with a positive terminal of the electrochemical cell. The cathode current collector has a tubular shape, such as a cylindrical shape or rectangular shape, extending parallel with the length of the central cathode. The cathode current collector is embedde...