US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Oct. 20 for "Current collector assemblies" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,983, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Current collector assemblies" was invented by Tyler Jacobs (Hawthorne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery may include several battery cells connected by a current collector assembly. The current collector assembly includes several conductor layers designed to connect (e.g., electrically couple) some battery cells in series and some battery cells in parallel. Using multiple interconnect portions, each conductor layer is coupled (e.g., electrically and mechanically coupled) to terminals (e.g., positive terminals, negative terminals) of the ba...