ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,103, issued on April 7, was assigned to LIMINAL INSIGHTS INC. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Fixturing mechanism with load sensors for acoustic testing of battery samples" was invented by Dennis Yu (Alameda, Calif.), Shaurjo Biswas (El Cerrito, Calif.), Omar Aleman (Emeryville, Calif.), Ashlyn Leona D'Orazio (Berkeley, Calif.), Kelsea Keenan (San Francisco), Jason Yue Yu (Castro Valley, Calif.), Yu-Shi Fong (Emeryville, Calif.) and Andrew G. Hsieh (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure are directed to fixturing mechanisms for placement of battery cells inside an ultrasonic testing sys...