ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,796, issued on June 9, was assigned to GS Yuasa International Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power storage apparatus" was invented by Yasutaka Miyawaki (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshihiro Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yoshiki Karata (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage apparatus includes: a first end component and a second end component that interpose power storage devices in a first direction; and a first side component and a second side component that interpose the power storage devices in a second direction. The first end component includes a first end connector connected to the first side component and a second end conn...