ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,182, issued on July 22, was assigned to Enevate Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Stepped electrochemical cells with folded sealed portion" was invented by Benjamin Yong Park (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pouched energy storage device can include a cell housing portion and a sealed portion. The device can also include a stack of electrodes housed within an inner region of the cell housing portion. Each electrode can have dimensions of width, length, and thickness. One or more electrodes can have at least one of the dimensions smaller than a corresponding dimension of other electrodes in the stack of electrodes. The device c...