ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,534, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Gelion Technologies Pty Ltd (Eveleigh, Australia).
"Interconnection" was invented by Christopher Hale (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnection for a battery comprising a plurality of cells, the interconnection comprising: an electrically insulating substrate having a first face and a second face; a heat sink on the first face of the substrate; and a layer of electrically conducting material on the second face of the substrate, said layer of electrically conducting material providing one or more cell-receiving regions for connection with the plurality of cells."...