ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,443, issued on May 26, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrical storage module" was invented by Kiyomi Kozuki (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyasu Kitamura (Osaka, Japan), Goro Fujita (Osaka, Japan) and Kasumi Sato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical storage module includes: a plurality of electrical storage devices; and a bus bar that connects electrode terminals of the electrical storage devices to each other, in which the electrical storage device includes an outer covering can in which an opening is formed, and a plate-shaped sealing body that is provided with the ...