US Patent Issued to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS on April 21 for "Battery module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,366, issued on April 21, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo).

"Battery module" was invented by Kosyo Abe (Himeji, Japan), Takahide Takeda (Himeji, Japan), Yasushi Tsuchida (Nisshin, Japan), Keiichiro Kobayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Makoto Ochi (Myouzai-gun, Japan), Mio Takeno (Miki, Japan), Masaki Koike (Nagoya, Japan), Koji Watanabe (Okazaki, Japan), Yuzo Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Seiichi Sakuramoto (Kobe, Japan), Yasuo Ikeda (Toyota, Japan) and Kosuke Iwase (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells stacked in a predetermined direction and electrically co...