ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,805, issued on June 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Interconnect board frame for a battery module" was invented by Christopher Paul Heilman (Waterford, Mich.), Hayley E. Hunt (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Samir Orow (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect board frame for a battery module, the battery module having at least a first battery cell having a positive terminal and a negative terminal, includes a first frame member defining a first slot aligned with the positive terminal of the first battery cell, a second frame member connected to the first frame member, the s...