ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,539, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Min Hyung Guen (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a secondary battery, and the technical problem to be solved is to provide a secondary battery having the reduced thickness, having no thickness deviation by regions due to high dimensional accuracy, and being capable of improving the strength of a cell bottom portion and cell side portions (a long side portion and a short side portion) and the cooling efficiency. To this end, disclosed is a secondary battery com...