ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,850, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery mounting case" was invented by Yutaka Hayashi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery mounting case includes a case main body, a connector, a temporary placing table, and an exchange preparation mechanism. The case main body has a battery storage part that stores a battery, and a battery mounting port that opens to an upper side of the battery storage part. The connector is conductively connected to the battery stored in the case main body. The temporary placing table is movable between a battery storage position in the battery storage part a...