ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,542, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sealing body and battery" was invented by Shinichi Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Shinya Geshi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes: a case including a cylindrical part, a bottom part that closes one end part of the cylindrical part, and an opening edge part continuous with the other end part of the cylindrical part; an electrode assembly housed in the cylindrical part; and a sealing body fixed to the opening edge so as to seal an opening of the opening edge part, in which the sealing body including a s...