US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 23 for "Battery cell assembly, battery, and motor vehicle" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,677, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Battery cell assembly, battery, and motor vehicle" was invented by Kevin Gallagher (Naperville, Ill.) and Frederik Morgenstern (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell assembly includes a frame and multiple battery cells which are held in cell-individual recesses of the frame so as to be aligned parallel to one another. A respective gap filler is arranged between lateral surfaces of the battery cells and the recess inner faces facing the lateral surfaces, said gap filler connecting the battery cells and the frame together. The frame is made ...