ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,652, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing laminated battery" was invented by Kazuyoshi Honda (Osaka, Japan), Akira Kawase (Osaka, Japan), Eiichi Koga (Osaka, Japan), Kouji Nishida (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuhiro Morioka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a laminated battery in which a plurality of unit battery cells each having a negative-electrode layer, a positive-electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer located between the negative-electrode layer and the positive-electrode layer are laminated, the met...