ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,396, issued on July 15, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Secondary battery" was invented by Hyun Soo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery includes: a case accommodating an electrode assembly; a cap plate sealing the case; a negative electrode terminal and a positive electrode terminal on the cap plate; a first negative-electrode-current-collector plate extending along a lower side of the cap plate between the electrode assembly and the cap plate and having a first end electrically connected to the negative electrode plate and a second end electrically connected ...