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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,417, 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), Keiichiro Kobayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Yasushi Tsuchida (Nisshin, Japan), Yuzo Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Koike (Nagoya, Japan), Koji Watanabe (Okazaki, Japan), Seiichi Sakuramoto (Kobe, Japan), Makoto Ochi (Myouzai-gun, Japan), Kosuke Iwase (Konan, Japan), Mio Takeno (Miki, Japan) and Yasuo Ikeda (Toyota, 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 a plurality of...