ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,298, issued on July 21, was assigned to H55 SA (Sion, Switzerland).

"Battery module for an electrically-driven aircraft, method for manufacturing a battery module and electrically-driven aircraft powered by a battery module" was invented by Sebastien Demont (Ayent, Switzerland), Franco Summermatter (Sion, Switzerland), Sebastien Luisier (Bruson, Switzerland), Eduardo Guzman Roca (Sion, Switzerland), Daniel Diaz (Sierre, Switzerland) and Gianmichele Bertini (Forli, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module for an electrically-driven aircraft is disclosed. The battery module can house multiple battery cells and prevent a ba...