ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,553, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Asymmetric and symmetric electrochemical arrays" was invented by Brian Utley (Canton, Mich.), Daewon Han (New Hudson, Mich.), Mary Fredrick (Carleton, Mich.) and Chi Paik (Grosse Ile, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrochemical cell arrays such as battery packs having cells of different sizes and/or thicknesses is disclosed. For example, the cells in an array may progressively increase or decrease in size or thickness from a first end to a second end such that a gradient in thickness is created. Alternatively, the gradient may be from th...