ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,212, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Battery pack protection circuit module" was invented by John Bernard Ardisana II (Torrance, Calif.), Yoav Ben-Haim (Venice, Calif.), Teodor Dabov (Los Angeles) and Douglas Wayne Moskowitz (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary battery pack comprises a battery and a protection circuit module (PCM), a pair of electrodes of the battery being connected to a protection circuit board (PCB) forming part of the PCM such that the electrode connections are located on a face of the PCB other than a major face that receives PCM components there...