ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,671, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Battery welds" was invented by Varun Milind Kale (Normal, Ill.), Bryce Fredrick Alexander Beecher (Bloomington, Ill.), Tianyue Gao (Fremont, Calif.), Ning Kang (Irvine, Calif.), Jingsi Yang (Irvine, Calif.) and Rajeev Dhiman (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to various features of a battery subassembly, such as a battery module. The battery subassembly may be implemented in an electric vehicle or in a building. In one or more implementations, the battery subassembly may include a battery cell hav...