ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,248, issued on July 14, was assigned to SK ON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack" was invented by Byeong Jun Pak (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Song Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jun Hee Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Sei Hoon Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Su Han (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Il Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a plurality of battery assemblies, each of the plurality of battery assemblies including a cell stack that includes a plurality of battery cells stacked together and a plate unit covering at least a portion of a side surface of the cell stack, and a link...