US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for stacking battery cells" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,771, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for stacking battery cells" was invented by Hannah Bever (South Lyon, Mich.), Andrew William Sherman (Commerce Township, Mich.), Paul John Bojanowski (Macomb Township, Mich.), Christopher Webber (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Carly Chmura (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stacking a battery cell includes feeding a separator sheet through a guide assembly to fold the separator sheet, inserting a plurality of first electrodes into the separator sheet at a location where the separator sheet has been fol...