US Patent Issued to A123 SYSTEMS on June 30 for "Battery tab configuration" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,147, issued on June 30, was assigned to A123 SYSTEMS LLC (Novi, Mich.).

"Battery tab configuration" was invented by David W. Allen (Farmington, Mich.) and James Dawson (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for constructing and assembling a battery are provided. A battery, may comprise a cell tab support and a plurality of stacked battery cells, where a portion of the cells extends through the cell tab support and is folded over on top of the cell tab support. Each of the plurality of stacked battery cells may comprise two oppositely charged electrode tab terminals bent in opposite directions below the cell...