ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,285, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ElringKlinger AG (Dettingen, Germany).

"Cell contacting system for an electrochemical device" was invented by Wolfgang Fritz (Metzingen, Germany) and Stefan Kazmaier (Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell contacting system for an electrochemical device is provided, which includes a plurality of cell groups having one or more electrochemical cells, each having a first and a second cell terminal. The first cell terminals follow each other along the longitudinal direction in a first cell terminal region of the electrochemical device and the second cell terminals follow ...