ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,527, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VEHICLE ENERGY JAPAN INC. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Battery pack" was invented by Osamu Kubota (Hitachinaka, Japan), Sadayuki Aoki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kazunori Ojima (Hitachinaka, Japan), Yoshitaka Watahiki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Akira Irie (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Tatsuo Sugawara (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a battery pack capable of preventing a damage to the insulation layer on the bottom face of each of battery cells and improving the cooling performance for the battery cells as compared with the conventional configuration. A battery pack includes a plurality...