ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,646, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module including multiple parallel battery cells" was invented by Han-Yong Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Su Son (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kun-Joo Yang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a battery module, which includes cylindrical battery cells erect such that top caps thereof face upward, and a bus bar unit connected to the cylindrical battery cells in series and in parallel. The cylindrical battery cells include a first bank cell group and a second bank cell group arranged in a first direction parallel ...