ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,164, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery pack terminal retention system including group of tab terminals secured to portion of busbar and another group of tab terminals secured to another portion, and method of usingthe same" was invented by Brock Dunlap (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack terminal retention system includes a busbar; a group of more than two first tab terminals secured directly to each other and to a first portion of the busbar; and a group of more than two second tab terminals secured directly to each other and to a different, second ...