ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,894, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo) and FUJI SPRINGS Co. INC. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Sealing plate equipped with gas discharge valve and secondary battery using the same" was invented by Hironori Marubayashi (Sumoto, Japan), Ryoichi Wakimoto (Kobe, Japan), Akihiro Yoneyama (Kobe, Japan), Akira Fujii (Asago, Japan), Toshihiro Odagaki (Asago, Japan) and Katsuhisa Kawai (Asago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, there is provided a sealing plate equipped with a gas discharge valve that reduces processing load and work hardening during molding. A gas discha...