ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,853, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Battery module, a battery pack, an electric vehicle, a cell carrier, a cell assembly" was invented by Matthias Pucher (Lebring, Austria), Bernhard Hadler (Feldkirchen, Austria) and Markus Ridisser (Premstatten, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells; and a plurality of cell carriers arranged adjacent to each other. Each of the cell carriers includes a plurality of meandering ribs that are spaced apart from each other, a first plurality of cell retainers, and a second plurality of cell retaine...