US Patent Issued to John Deere Electric Powertrain on July 1 for "Apparatus having a plurality of battery cells arranged parallel to one another with respect to a joining axis" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,887, issued on July 1, was assigned to John Deere Electric Powertrain LLC (Moline, Ill.).

"Apparatus having a plurality of battery cells arranged parallel to one another with respect to a joining axis" was invented by Helmut Kastler (Freistadt, Austria), Peter Dobusch (Grunbach, Austria) and Gerhard Waldschutz (Freistadt, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has a plurality of battery cells (2) arranged parallel to one another with respect to a joining axis (1) and a contact plate (3) arranged between the battery cells (2) and having a plurality of recesses (4) for circumferentially enclosing the battery cells (2). The batt...