ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,813, issued on June 9, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for battery architecture" was invented by Sunoj Cherian George (Irvine, Calif.), Baojin Wang (San Marcos, Calif.), Todd Adams Putnam (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Kyle Lobo (Westchester, Calif.), Charles John Scanlon (Culver City, Calif.) and Brian Joseph Ciaverella (San Pedro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a battery architecture include a first fuse connected between a first battery cell and a second battery cell of a battery pack, and a second fuse connected between the second battery cell and a terminal of...