US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Jan. 27 for "Battery cell having a prismatic conductive housing" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,247, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Battery cell having a prismatic conductive housing" was invented by Daniel Karlsson (Daniel Island, S.C.), Anna Ohrby (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Peng Zhong (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell, suitable for use in an electric vehicle, includes a prismatic conductive casing having an electrically conductive casing body with a width (W), a height (H) and a thickness (T) and having a generally rectangular cross-section when seen in the thickness direction (z). A stack of layer assemblies is accommodated in the casing body, each laye...