ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,047, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Laminator for battery assembly" was invented by Terri Chai Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Karthik Bhatt (San Jose, Calif.) and Chao Ken Hsu (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are embodiments of a laminator and notcher system that pertains to batteries and methods of preparing batteries. In some embodiments, the system includes a laminator configured to densify an electrode film and a notcher configured to receive the densified electrode film from the laminator and cut the densified electrode film into a plurality of electrodes. A web path o...