ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,856, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to instagrid GmbH (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

"Centering for a cell connector in a battery module" was invented by Andreas Sedlmayr (Pforzheim, Germany) and Sebastian Berning (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module housing for receiving multiple battery cells having: multiple receiving regions for the battery cells, battery cell receiving regions, a receiving region for a circuit board, circuit board receiving region that lies adjacent to the battery cells receiving regions; and multiple receiving regions for cell connectors, cell connector receiving regions that are provid...