ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,549, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module and battery pack comprising same" was invented by Sung Hwan Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jun Yeob Seong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyoung Suk Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a battery cell assembly in which two or more longitudinal unit cells, each of which has electrode leads at both ends in the longitudinal direction arranged in a row in the longitudinal direction, are stacked in two or more columns in the thickness direction of the battery cell; a terminal bus bar coupled to the bat...