ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,654, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module having bent trap portion and battery pack including the same" was invented by Young Seok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), In Jae Gang (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Hoon Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young Bum Cho (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, a busbar configured to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells to each other, and a module case configured to receive the plurality of battery cells and the busbar, wherein the module case includes a receiving p...