ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,339, issued on March 11, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Fixture unit for holding a prismatic battery cell" was invented by Leopold Werberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Marcus Schmidt (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixture unit for holding a prismatic battery cell during a coating step and during a curing step, including: at least one skirt element, which is movable between a coating position and a curing position and wherein the skirt element is configured to shield an area of the battery cell in the coating position and to un-shield the area of the battery cell in the curing position; and a...