ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,782, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD (Osaka, Japan).

"Connection module" was invented by Naoki Fukushima (Mie, Japan), Osamu Nakayama (Mie, Japan), Katsushi Miyazaki (Mie, Japan) and Tetsuya Fujita (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection module according to the present disclosure is a connection module 20 attached to a power storage element group 90 in which a plurality of power storage elements 91, each having an electrode terminal 93, are arranged, and includes a connection member, an insula...