ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,572, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Energy storage apparatus and energy storage module" was invented by Shota Norimine (Osaka, Japan), Hirotaka Ogino (Osaka, Japan), Shinya Geshi (Osaka, Japan), Toshiya Gotou (Osaka, Japan), Shoichiro Watanabe (Nara, Japan) and Shingo Kume (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage apparatus includes: a plurality of electrode assemblies that are cylindrical, and a film outer body including a plurality of housing portions that individually wrap the plurality of electrode assemblies; and a sealing portion tha...