ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,926, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Electrical connection terminal and battery pack signal acquisition device" was invented by Xiaozhi (George) Fu (Shanghai), Wei (Rock) Lv (Shanghai), Wei Zhang (Shanghai), Dingbing (Frank) Fan (Shanghai) and Xiang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connection terminal includes a welding part welded to a solder pad of a battery pack cell to be electrically connected to the battery pack cell, a press fitting part pressed into a hole on a battery pack signal acquisition board to be electrically connected to the battery ...