ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,863, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Battery" was invented by Yunki Baik (San Jose, Calif.), Ki Woon Kim (Milpitas, Calif.), Prajanya Sunil Kendrekar (San Jose, Calif.) and Arvinth Chandar Rathinam (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell can include a tab having a first portion and a second portion. The battery cell can include an electrode having an uncoated region. The battery cell can include a current collector. The tab can be disposed within a slit of the current collector. The first portion and the second portion of the tab can electrically couple the current...