ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,555, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Lyten Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method of manufacturing tab-less cylindrical cells" was invented by Elena Rogojina (San Jose, Calif.), Jerzy Gazda (Austin, Texas), You Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jesse Baucom (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chandra B. KC (San Jose, Calif.), Jingning Shan (San Jose, Calif.) and Ratnakumar Bugga (Arcadia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a lithium-sulfur battery in a cylindrical cell format is provided. In some aspects, the method includes providing an anode current collector and providing an anode on the anode current collector. The method may incl...