ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,342, issued on April 14, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module including bus bar assembly slidely disposed on electrode tabs of battery cells and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Seung Hun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Gu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwan Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kenneth Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module which includes: a battery stack formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells respectively including electrode tabs on each other; and bus bar assemblies located on sides of the battery stack, from which the electrode t...