ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,340, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack" was invented by Keun-Wook Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack for efficiently supplying a power to a vehicle and including a battery assembly, a power supply terminal connectable to a connection terminal of the vehicle that is connected to a vehicle control unit and a vehicle motor, a power supply path located between the power supply terminal and the battery cell and supplying a power from the battery cell to the power supply terminal, a switching unit provided on the power supply path electrically...