US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on April 21 for "Battery terminal micro welds" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,421, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Battery terminal micro welds" was invented by Bryce Fredrick Alexander Beecher (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example illustrations are directed to methods and apparatuses comprising battery cells having weld joints. In an example method, a laser is moved to a shoulder of a battery cell. The method may further include micro welding with the laser a first line segment on the shoulder of the battery cell and moving the laser a distance on the shoulder of the battery cell. The method may also comprise micro welding with the laser a se...