ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,502, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"High voltage battery including tab-free and weld-free folded bipolar solid-state batteries" was invented by Qili Su (Shanghai), Zhe Li (Anda, China), Jingyuan Liu (Shanghai), Meiyuan Wu (Shanghai) and Haijing Liu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system comprises N folded bipolar batteries folded in an "S"-shaped configuration. First and second folded portions of each of the N folded bipolar batteries are arranged on opposite ends of the "S"-shaped configuration. First side portions and second side portions of each of the N folded b...