ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,377, issued on July 7, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Structural battery pack cell signal and conversion pass-through" was invented by Daniel Karlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Martin Hjalm Wallborg (Gothenburg, Sweden), Klas Persson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Leopold Werberg (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack for use in an electric vehicle having two longitudinal sill members extending in a length direction, interconnected at a front side by front and rear transverse members, a number of rectangular battery cells being placed between the sill members, the front transverse member and th...