ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,116, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Battery module" was invented by Markus Schmitt (Tamm, Germany) and Ralph Glemser (Brackenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a housing element (2) made of a metallic material (3) and a lid element (4) made of a metal material (5), which are connected to one another while forming a common internal space (6) configured to accommodate a plurality of battery cells (7) by the formation of a plurality of plastic deformations (8) of the lid element (4) that are arranged so as to be spaced apart from one another, in such a way ...