ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,240, issued on March 17, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Battery pack for exchangeable insertion into a receiving compartment" was invented by Andreas Henzler (Unterensingen, Germany), Maria Pohler (Waiblingen, Germany), Andreas Wolf (Leutenbach, Germany), Alexander Hartel (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Jurgen Glaser (Lug, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack for exchangeable insertion into a receiving compartment delimited by an inner wall has a housing accommodating battery cells. The housing has a basic shape with an upright side and first and second end walls opposite each other. Th...