ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,241, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module and battery pack comprising same" was invented by Seung-Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yu-Dam Kong (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Kyu Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Hoo Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung-Min Ok (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Hyun Jo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung-Goen Hong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are vertically stacked; a module housing including a base plate supporting the cell stack and a pair of side plates co...