US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus for connecting in parallel a plurality of battery cells which are arranged parallel to one another with respect to a joining axis" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,809, issued on Oct. 14.

"Apparatus for connecting in parallel a plurality of battery cells which are arranged parallel to one another with respect to a joining axis" was invented by Gerhard Waldschutz (Freistadt, Austria), Wolfgang Schmudermaier (Eisgarn, Austria), Florian Drexler (Freistadt, Austria) and Helmut Kastler (Freistadt, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is described for connecting in parallel multiple battery cells (2) arranged in parallel to one another with respect to a joining axis using a contact plate (1) having individual passages (3). To enable a connection in parallel, which is reliable under periodi...