ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,151, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Battery pack, work system and method for producing a battery pack" was invented by Raphael Wegmann (Leonberg, Germany), Daniel Amann (Stuttgart, Germany), Thilo Jaeger (Kernen, Germany), Patrick Behringer (Ostfildern, Germany), Siegfried Frey (Stuttgart, Germany), Danny Knapp (Fellbach, Germany) and Marcel Wilka (Boebingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack supplies an electrically driven work appliance with electrical drive power. The battery pack has: at least one battery cell, wherein the battery cell has at least one safe...