ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,598, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Electrical conductor apparatus" was invented by Neil Patel (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Jimmy Daisuke Spence (Ontario, Calif.), Akshay Kishor Murkute (Irvine, Calif.), Leonel Caballero Banuelos (Orange, Calif.), Nilesh Ashok Kharat (Tustin, Calif.), Tyler Jacobs (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Najmeh Rahimi (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current collector can include an electrically conductive layer. The electrically conductive layer can be configured to electrically couple to a first battery cell and a second battery cell with an interstitial a...