US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Aug. 19 for "Connecting a cell stack to at least one contact element in a vacuum using a laser" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,870, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Connecting a cell stack to at least one contact element in a vacuum using a laser" was invented by Alexander Breuer (Celle, Germany), Dennis Bohm (Wolfenbuttel, Germany), Frederik Grau (Braunschweig, Germany) and Markus Ramm (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a component for storing electrical energy, said component comprising at least one cell stack for storing electrical energy and at least one contact element for making electrical contact with the at least one cell stack, has at least the following steps: a) arran...