ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,280, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to McLaren Automotive Ltd. (Woking, Great Britain).

"Battery assembly" was invented by Sunoj Cherian George (Woking, Great Britain), James Douglas McLaggan (Woking, Great Britain) and Elie Talj (Woking, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assembling a battery module, the method comprising: providing a cell tray defining a plurality of cell holes for holding cells; inserting cells into respective cell holes so that the cells each protrude from the cell tray at each end of the cell; attaching a first casing to a first side of the cell tray to enclose the cell ends protruding from...