ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,660, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"Battery module, electronic device using the same, and assembly method of battery module" was invented by Feilong Guo (Dongguan, China) and Hao Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes n batteries, nless than=3. The n batteries are stacked in a sequence along a thickness direction of the battery, and m is defined as a round number of n/2, and the first battery and the m-th battery satisfy at least one of the following conditions: a1: a capacity of the m-th battery is greater than that of the first battery; b1...