ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,844, issued on May 13, was assigned to Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (Changzhou, China).

"Battery module" was invented by Yuwen Wang (Jiangsu, China), Kai Yang (Jiangsu, China) and Guangliang Lin (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a battery module, including: two or more battery units, wherein each battery unit includes a battery core including two end portions opposed in a length direction thereof, and the two or more battery units are arranged side by side in a thickness direction of the battery core, in two adjacent battery units, a first gap is formed between two battery cores th...