ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,575, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack having improved fastening structure and vehicle comprising same" was invented by Jung-Hoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Doo-Han Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae-Hun Yang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a module stack in which a plurality of battery modules are stacked; a pack housing having a lower housing for supporting the module stack at a lower side thereof and an upper housing coupled to the lower housing from an upper side of the module stack; a plurality of weld nuts fixed to a lo...