ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,889, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery" was invented by Jun Izumi (Toyota, Japan) and Masato Ono (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery including power generation units each including a positive electrode layer, a separator layer, and a negative electrode layer. The area of either one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer is larger than the area of the other one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer. The power generation units each has a non-facing region. In the non-facing region, a first penetration portion is placed...