ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,635, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Secondary battery current collector and manufacturing method for same, and secondary battery" was invented by Daisuke Horikawa (Kariya, Japan) and Yohei Shindo (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The secondary battery current collector disclosed herein includes a resin layer, a first metal layer covering one main surface of the resin layer, and a second metal layer covering the other main surface of the resin layer. Each of the first metal layer and the second metal layer extend beyond an external side of the main surface of the resin l...