ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,129, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Battery module including tapping element and housing connected in fluid-tight manner" was invented by Markus Schmitt (Tamm, Germany), Jerome Homann (Renningen, Germany) and Michael Hienzsch (Waiblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells which are received in an interior of a housing of the battery module and which are electrically conductively connected to one another in series and/or in parallel, wherein the housing comprises an opening which is designed to guide a voltage tap of the battery mo...