ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,639, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to PowerCo SE (Salzgitter, Germany).
"Method for checking a battery element stack with regard to the position of battery element layers" was invented by Steffen Masuch (Braunschweig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking a stack of multiple battery element layers in the form of anodes, cathodes, and separators. Geometries of at least one of the large surfaces of at least the anodes and/or the cathodes are determined. The battery element layers are stacked to form the stack. Subsequently for a position check of the anodes and/or of the cathodes, the stack is irradiated by X...