ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,388, issued on April 21, was assigned to NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Battery pack" was invented by Jinbing Zhou (Dongguan, China) and Xin Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell module includes a plurality of battery cells stacked in a first direction, and a first groove extending in the first direction is formed at each of two ends of the first side of the battery cell module. In a second direction, the two first side covers are arranged at two opposite sides of the battery cell module. First bodies of the two first side covers are substantially parallel to a third direction of the b...