ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,175, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PowerCo SE (Salzgitter, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for manufacturing a cell stack for battery cells" was invented by Kartik Jamadar (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Christian Theuerkauf (Braunschweig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a cell stack for battery cells comprises at least the following steps: feeding in at least a first material strip consisting of a first material; making a first cut into at least the first material strip while forming at least one transport section having tensile strength; combining the first material strip with at least a second material ...