US Patent Issued to SK On on March 24 for "Battery module" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,857, issued on March 24, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module" was invented by Hoemin Cheong (Daejeon, South Korea), HyunJoon Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Majid Abbasi Gharacheh (Daejeon, South Korea), Wook Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a battery module including a housing having an internal accommodating space and a plurality of battery cells located in the internal accommodating space, wherein the housing includes a welding joint portion in which a first base material of a first alloy and a second base material of a ...