US Patent Issued to Bebat Vzw on Oct. 14 for "Drum for transporting and/or storing batteries and the use of such a drum" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,527, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Bebat Vzw (Tienen, Belgium).

"Drum for transporting and/or storing batteries and the use of such a drum" was invented by Hendrik Hendrickx (Tienen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drum for transporting and/or storing batteries, the drum having an internal storage space having a volume, and the drum being provided with a lid to close off the storage space The lid is provided with one or more openings for venting gas from the storage space to the atmosphere. One or more openings have a total surface area of at least 1.0 square centimeter per liter volume of the storage space. On an outsi...