ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,707, issued on April 22, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Battery cell stack spacer" was invented by Daniel Binder (Leibnitz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a battery cell stack spacer compensating a thickness deviation of a stack of battery cells, the battery cell stack spacer includes: a first carrier member providing planar support to a base side of a battery cell; a second carrier member providing planar support to a base side of a further battery cell; one or more tolerance compensation sheets sandwiched between the first carrier member and the second carrier member."

The patent was file...