ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,044, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Mylar Specialty Films U.S. LP (Chester, Va.).

"Current collectors comprising metallised films" was invented by Stephen Sankey (Wilton, Great Britain), Stephen Jones (Wilton, Great Britain), Pedro Nunes (Luxembourg) and Lucien Schosseler (Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current collector comprising a biaxially oriented polymeric substrate layer and a first metal layer on a side of the polymeric substrate layer, wherein the polymeric substrate layer exhibits positive thermal expansion in air at 200deg C. in each of the transverse direction (TD) and machine direction (MD). The polymeri...