ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,869, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QuantumScape Battery Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Processing apparatuses and methods of using" was invented by David Berkstresser (San Jose, Calif.), Lucas Broganer (San Jose, Calif.), Timothy Holme (San Jose, Calif.), John Olenick (San Jose, Calif.), Murugan Ramaswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Tugrul Samir (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Sheffield (San Jose, Calif.), Brad Stimson (San Jose, Calif.), Martin Winterkorn (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Rishi Ramanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Jordan Friedland (San Jose, Calif.) and Anand Parejiya (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Set...