ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,946, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Battery module" was invented by Daeyeop Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sungyong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jaeho Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Soodeok Moon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jangwoong Bae (Yongin-si, South Korea), Junhyung Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dooyong Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jisoon Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Eungi Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a module including a series of cell stacks, each having a series of unit cells arranged in a first direction, and an in...