ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,379, issued on May 20, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).
"Electronic device with secondary battery" was invented by Minoru Takahashi (Nagano, Japan), Ryota Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Miwa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuugo Goto (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 might be damaged when force is externall...