ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,266, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack for vehicle" was invented by Kyung Mo Kim (Hwaseong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a battery pack for a vehicle. The battery pack includes a battery unit with overlapped battery cells; unit busbars respectively coupled to electrodes at opposite ends of the battery cells and extended upward from the battery unit; unit busbar support bodies located at opposite ends of the battery unit and supporting the unit busbars and the battery cells; a lower tray on which overlapped battery un...