ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,459, issued on May 20, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Battery module, battery pack, power consumption apparatus, and manufacturing method and manufacturing device of battery module" was invented by Qian Liu (Fujian, China), Chengdu Liang (Fujian, China), Yonghuang Ye (Fujian, China) and Haizu Jin (Fujian, 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 at least connected in series, where the first-type battery cell and the second-type battery cell are battery cells of different ch...