US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on Oct. 21 for "Battery assembly and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,565, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Battery assembly and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Kentaro Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Koshiro Yoneda (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a battery assembly including a first battery and a second battery, the first battery includes a negative terminal, and the negative terminal has a first metal section and a second metal section formed of a metal different from the first metal section. The second metal section is joined to the top of the first metal section with the dissim...