ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,216, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery accommodation tray" was invented by Teruo Nakai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a battery accommodation tray in which the amount of material used is readily reduced and of which the strength is readily improved. The battery accommodation tray comprises a plurality of accommodation parts that respectively accommodate batteries and that are positioned at intervals from each other. The accommodation parts have insertion openings demarcated by insertion-side circular parts that have a...