ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,343, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Battery pack including horizontal cell stack structure" was invented by Lu Huang (Troy, Mich.), Hui-ping Wang (Troy, Mich.), Yangbing Zeng (Troy, Mich.), Timothy M. Grewe (Northville, Mich.), Blair E. Carlson (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yunzhi Xu (Sterling Heights, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rechargeable energy storage system includes a first plurality of cells arranged in a first horizontal cell stack. Each of the first plurality of cells includes a first diameter, a first end and a second end spaced from the first end by a first distance ...