ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,763, issued on June 2, was assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Battery module" was invented by Po-Ching Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hui Wen Chiu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Wen Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Pao-Long Fan (Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-Ping Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Ting-Jui Hu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chao Chan Tan (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Hung Yao (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Chih Shih (Taipei, Taiwan), Jui-Liang Ho (Taipei, Taiwan), Ching-Kai Yu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Lai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module including a battery frame, a plurality of locking structures, a plurality of battery units, and a p...