ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,708, issued on April 22, was assigned to Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Terminal protection device and battery module" was invented by Daohui Liu (Ningde, China), Jihua Yao (Ningde, China), Yangzhi Huang (Ningde, China), Shengtian Cai (Ningde, China), Sheng Shen (Ningde, China) and Haidong Zhang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a terminal protection device and a battery module. The terminal protection device includes a base having a bottom portion and side plates connected to peripheral sides of the bottom portion, the side plates and the bottom portion together form an accommo...