US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 25 for "Methods and apparatus to increase stacking pressure in battery cells" (Arizona, California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,891, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to increase stacking pressure in battery cells" was invented by Naoki Matsumura (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Erike (Mesa, Ariz.) and Juha Paavola (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to increase stacking pressure in battery cells are disclosed. A disclosed battery includes an anode layer and a cathode layer stacked with the anode layer. The disclosed battery further includes a tension bearing structure to extend through at least one of the anode layer or the cathode layer."...