ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,055, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Energy storage apparatus" was invented by Ryoichi Terahara (Kyoto, Japan) and Noriyoshi Munenaga (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage apparatus includes an outer case that accommodates an energy storage device and a reinforcing member. The reinforcing member includes the pair of reinforcing walls disposed so as to sandwich the two wall portions of the outer case from an outside of the outer case, the two wall portions opposedly facing each other, and the connecting portion connecting the pair of reinforcing walls to each oth...