ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,456, issued on March 31, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electric power storage module" was invented by Jiro Muratsu (Okayama, Japan), Hirotaka Ogino (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Takasaki (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Hirano (Osaka, Japan) and Keisuke Nagata (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage module includes: at least one cylindrical power storage device; and an upper holder that holds an upper end side of the power storage device; in which a positive-electrode terminal and a negative-electrode terminal are disposed at an end part on the upper end part of the power ...