ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,277, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PowerCo SE (Salzgitter, Germany).

"Method and device for producing a cell stack for battery cells" was invented by Kartik Jamadar (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Christian Theuerkauf (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a cell stack (57) for battery cells (8) comprises at least the following steps: a) feeding in at least a first material strip (3) comprising a first material; b) making a first cut into at least the first material strip (3), thereby forming at least one strip-like transport section (18) having tensile strength; c) combining the first material str...