US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on April 7 for "Battery module and method for bracing a battery module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,669, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Battery module and method for bracing a battery module" was invented by Robert Loch (Munich) and Christoph Warkotsch (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module stores electrical energy. The battery module includes one or more battery cells disposed between two compression plates so as to be next to one another along a transverse axis of the battery module. The battery module is configured such that a spacing between the two compression plates is variable within a spacing range so that a variation in a spatial extent of the one or more battery ...