US Patent Issued to John Deere Electric Powertrain on April 21 for "Device having a plurality of battery cells arranged one behind the other in a joining direction" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,402, issued on April 21, was assigned to John Deere Electric Powertrain LLC (Moline, Ill.).

"Device having a plurality of battery cells arranged one behind the other in a joining direction" was invented by Peter Dobusch (Grunbach, Austria), Gerhard Waldschutz (Freistadt, Austria), Helmut Kastler (Freistadt, Austria) and Kilian Menzl (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has a plurality of battery modules (1) which are arranged one behind the other in a joining direction (F) and each have a main body (2) interspersed with a group of battery cells (3) in the joining direction (F). The electrical connection of the batt...