ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,252, issued on June 23, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack" was invented by Seung Hun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Gu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji Hoon Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yang Kyu Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a cell assembly; and a pack case accommodating the cell assembly in an internal space, wherein the pack case includes a lower plate having a plate shape and a frame disposed to protrude upwardly from the lower plate, wherein the frame has an inlet through which flame flows from the cell assembly into the internal space of the fr...