ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,317, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Power storage module" was invented by Hiroki Nagai (Ama-gun, Japan), Takaaki Matsui (Toyota, Japan), Takafumi Nose (Nagoya, Japan) and Koichiro Isobe (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage module includes: a first power storage cell and a second power storage cell placed to be adjacent to each other, the first power storage cell and the second power storage cell each including a housing having a top face and external terminals provided on the top face; and a spacer having an insulating property and placed between the housings adjacent...