ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,799, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Laminate for secondary battery and secondary battery, and methods of producing same" was invented by Masanobu Sato (Tokyo), Hiroshi Koga (Tokyo), Masuhiro Onishi (Tokyo) and Koji Annaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a laminate includes: a step (A) of producing an affixed body including a negative electrode material and separator webs affixed to both surfaces of the negative electrode material or an affixed body including a negative electrode material, a first separator web, a positive electrode, and a second separator web affixed in stated orde...