US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 8 for "Battery module and methods of assembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,832, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Battery module and methods of assembly" was invented by Travis Cournoyer (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Nathaniel Wynn (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module and a method of assembling a battery module are provided. The method includes selectively applying a light-cure adhesive to recesses in a first side of a carrier layer and inserting battery cells into respective recesses. The method further includes exposing the first side of the carrier layer to light to at least partially cure the light-cure adhesive with the carrier layer ...