ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,327, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Battery module and battery unit" was invented by Kosyo Abe (Himeji, Japan), Takahide Takeda (Himeji, Japan), Keiichiro Kobayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Makoto Ochi (Myouzai-gun, Japan), Mio Takeno (Miki, Japan), Yasushi Tsuchida (Nisshin, Japan), Masaki Koike (Nagoya, Japan), Koji Watanabe (Okazaki, Japan), Seiichi Sakuramoto (Kobe, Japan), Yuzo Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Yasuo Ikeda (Toyota, Japan) and Kosuke Iwase (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of a plurality of units includes a plurality of battery cells and a supporting member. The plu...