ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,358, issued on March 18, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module" was invented by Eung Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeong Kwan Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwan Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Yeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Jin Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Hun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module which uses a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) to provide a transmission path of information on the voltage or temperature thereof sensed by a bus bar. The battery module may have a smaller size in a height direction compared to a case of using a ...