US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Balanced current collector plate" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,902, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Balanced current collector plate" was invented by Derek Frei Lahr (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Konrad Michael Brown (Allen Park, Mich.) and Chinmaya Patil (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a battery pack having a balanced current collector plate configured to connect a plurality of battery cells to one another and an electric vehicle including the same. The balanced current collector plate includes a terminal and a plurality of cell connection regions, each corresponding to one of the plurality of battery cells. Each of ...