ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,670, issued on May 5, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery pack and electric vehicle" was invented by Huajun Sun (Shenzhen, China), Zhipei Lu (Shenzhen, China), Qingbo Peng (Shenzhen, China), Long Wan (Shenzhen, China) and Yan Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a housing, and at least one housing structural beam and multiple electrode core strings electrically connected to one another located in the housing. The housing includes a housing body, including a top plate and a bottom plate arranged opposite to each other in a first direction. The structural beam is located between...