ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,777, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Integrated energy storage system" was invented by Andrew Pires (San Francisco), Robert David Sumpf Jr. (San Francisco), William B. Stockton (San Francisco), Cole Spooner (Palo Alto, Calif.), Cole Prodan (Mountain View, Calif.), Jayesh Bharat Gorasia (San Francisco), Kenton Harris (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dan Burke (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dafna Gabriela Szafer (Palo Alto, Calif.), Krupal Patel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Benjamin Parker (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David Elias Hegeman (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated, unitary battery pack may be formed and...