ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,406, issued on May 20, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module having a sensing module thereon" was invented by Seung Hun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yun Joo Noh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Gu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module which includes: a battery stack formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells respectively including electrode tabs on each other; bus bar assemblies located on both sides of the battery stack, from which the electrode tabs are drawn, to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells to each other through the plurality of electrode t...