ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,783, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC ENERGY Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Battery pack" was invented by Satoshi Kawakami (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes core pack housing a plurality of cells, and outer case housing core pack. Outer covering case is formed in a box shape by connecting outer peripheral wall to an outer peripheral edge of a pair of surface plates, and outer peripheral wall provided at each convex corner of each of surface plates include impact-absorbing wall that is an outside surface, main body wall disposed at an inner side of impact-absorbing wall, and impact-absorbing gap...