ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,442, issued on March 25, was assigned to Acculogic Inc. (Markham, Canada).

"Apparatus and method for testing a cell contact of battery cells of a battery module" was invented by Bogdan Paraschiv (Toronto) and Karim Dehkordi (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (100) and method for testing cell contact of battery cells (102) of a battery module (104), which battery cells are electrically connected in parallel via a contacting system (106, 107). The apparatus includes a sensor positioning system (108) for positioning a sensor device (110) at a plurality of test points (112) of the battery module, which is m...