ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,028, issued on March 24, was assigned to Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Battery pack, battery pack system and power tool" was invented by Hongbing Wu (Suzhou, China), Shiping Jiao (Suzhou, China), Shaofeng Lv (Suzhou, China) and Yaoqiu Qian (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a housing and at least one battery cell located within the housing, a charging and discharging port disposed on the housing, the charging and discharging port is provided with a connection terminal, the connection terminal is configured to be connected to the battery cell; the external device is configu...