US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Dec. 30 for "Method and apparatus for electrical contacting of cells of a battery" (German, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,564, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for electrical contacting of cells of a battery" was invented by Christian Trif (Kusterdingen, Germany), Erzsebet Sara Bogya (Budapest, Hungary), Milia Lambidou (Reutlingen, Germany) and Nathanael Eisenreich (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for electrical contacting of cells of a battery. The method includes: using a laser beam having a first beam energy to remove contamination in a region, provided for electrical contacting, of an electrically conductive outer surface of a first cell of t...