ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,149, issued on June 30, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Battery connection module" was invented by Yun-Jin Li (Chengdu, China), Li-Jun Sun (Chengdu, China) and Yong Lin (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery connection module is used to connect a plurality of batteries, includes a plurality of busbars, a connector, a single layer wiring flexible circuit board and a strengthening back board. The plurality of busbars are used to connect the plurality of batteries, the connector includes a plurality of conductive terminals, the single layer wiring flexible circuit board includes a plurality of terminal connec...