ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,202, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Battery cells comprising elastic compressible functional layers and manufacturing process" was invented by Michal Tulodziecki (Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium), Sandeep Unnikrishnan (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Franky Flory Vercauteren (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Lucas Augustinus Haverkate (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a rechargeable battery cell comprising a compressible elastic composite material to form one or more of: a compressible an...