ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,250, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ATIEVA INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Bus bars for battery packs" was invented by James Jan (Menlo Park, Calif.), Richard J. Biskup (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Benson Tsai (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack has bus bars at one end, freeing the other end of the battery pack for cooling or other arrangements. A plurality of battery cells has first terminals of the battery cells at first ends of the battery cells. Portions of second terminals of the battery cells are at the first ends of the battery cells. The first ends of the battery cells are in a coplanar arrangement. A ...