ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,761, issued on June 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Battery pack" was invented by Kousuke Aoki (Kariya-city, Japan) and Tatsuhiro Numata (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a housing, a plurality of assembled batteries disposed in the housing, obtaining units arranged one for each of the assembled batteries in the housing, and the monitoring device equipped with a master antenna. The obtaining units obtain battery information about the assembled batteries and transmit it to the master antenna of the monitoring device through wireless communication using slave antennas. The master...