ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,243, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electricity storage module with a sheet-like heating element for heating electricity storage devices" was invented by Koichi Sawada (Osaka, Japan), Hirotaka Ogino (Osaka, Japan) and Duoduo Xie (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage module of the present disclosure includes a plurality of power storage devices formed into a tube-like shape; and a sheet-like heating element for heating the plurality of power storage devices, wherein each of the plurality of power storage devices has a tube-like case, the pl...