ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,184, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery cell connection structure" was invented by Yuya Ishihara (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a battery cell connection structure for connecting two rectangular battery cells in series in a state where the two battery cells are stacked in the thickness direction thereof, a positive electrode tab of one of the battery cells and a negative electrode tab of the other of the battery cells are connected to each other in a state where the positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab are stacked in the thickness direction while the positive ele...