ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,914, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Lid body and sealed battery" was invented by Yuki Sato (Toyota, Japan), Yozo Uchida (Toyota, Japan), Hideki Asadachi (Toyota, Japan), Syoichi Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan), Masataka Asai (Toyota, Japan), Tsuyoshi Asano (Toyota, Japan), Masahiro Uchimura (Toyota, Japan) and Nozomi Tateyama (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid body includes a terminal member of at least one of a positive electrode and a negative electrode, a sealing plate including an attachment hole for attaching the terminal mem...