ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,319, issued on March 25, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Battery module, battery pack, electrical apparatus, and manufacturing method and manufacturing device of battery module" was invented by Xiaofu Xu (Ningde, China), Yonghuang Ye (Ningde, China), Qian Liu (Ningde, China), Haizu Jin (Ningde, China) and Chengdu Liang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a battery module, including a first-type battery cell and a second-type battery cell electrically connected at least in series, the first-type battery cell and the second-type battery cell ar...