ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,250, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power storage" was invented by Masashi Kato (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage includes a stack made of stacked power storage cells and a casing in which the stack is accommodated. The casing includes a pair of wall portions provided such that the stack lies therebetween in a direction of stack. Each of the pair of wall portions includes a central portion located in a center in a plane direction orthogonal to the direction of stack and an outer peripheral portion located around the central portion. Each of the pair of wall portions...