US Patent Issued to SK On on Aug. 18 for "Battery module" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,231, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module" was invented by Seung Hun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeong Kwan Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwan Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Yeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Jin Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ung Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a cell stack body in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; and a module case accommodating the cell stack body therein having a first surface and a second surface, opposite to the first surface. The module case includes an upper case d...