ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,665, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery pack and battery cells mounted to the battery pack" was invented by Kyung Mo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack for a vehicle includes a pack tray with an open upper surface, a plurality of battery cells stacked in a vertical direction on the pack tray, a plurality of sensing blocks, each including a cell bus-bar connected to an electrode of each of the battery cells, and provided on the pack tray, and a pressure plate mounted to press upper surfaces of the stacked batter...