ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,326, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric power storage module" was invented by Kasumi Sato (Osaka, Japan) and Shota Norimine (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power storage module includes an array body in which a plurality of electric power storage devices are arranged in a first direction, a pair of end plates which are disposed at both ends of the array body to interpose the array body, and a first binding member and a second binding member which bind the array body in the first direction. The first binding member includes a first mai...