ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,306, issued on March 25, was assigned to Techtronic Cordless GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Batteries providing high power and high energy density" was invented by Denis Gaston Fauteux (Kwai Chung, Hong Kong) and Aditya Subramanian (Kwai Chung, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods which provide battery configurations for delivering high power while maintaining high energy density are described. Embodiments provide cylindrical batteries configured to deliver high energy density while having high power density at least in part through an electrode configuration disposing electrode material for the cathode and/or anode o...