ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,109, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Electronic device including secondary battery" was invented by Minoru Takahashi (Nagano, Japan), Yuugo Goto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yumiko Yoneda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Miwa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryota Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the case where a film, which has lower strength than a metal can, is used as an exterior body of a secondary battery, a current collector provided in a region surrounded by the exterior body, an active material layer provided on a surface of the current collector, or the like m...