ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,461, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).
"Battery module" was invented by Hiroki Nagai (Ama-gun, Japan), Takaaki Matsui (Toyota, Japan), Takafumi Nose (Nagoya, Japan), Koichiro Isobe (Toyota, Japan), Koji Fujinaga (Kakogawa, Japan) and Kouhei Tsuzuki (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a pair of secondary batteries disposed adjacent to each other and a spacer disposed between the secondary batteries. Each of the secondary batteries includes a plurality of electrodes each of which has a rectangular shape and is dispose...