ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,190, issued on May 12, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Voltage detection unit and power storage device" was invented by Yutaro Okazaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Shinichi Yanagihara (Shizuoka, Japan), Satoshi Morioka (Aichi-ken, Japan), Hiroyuki Kaiya (Aichi-ken, Japan), Hiromi Ueda (Aichi-ken, Japan), Shinpei Mune (Aichi-ken, Japan), Naoto Morisaku (Aichi-ken, Japan), Yutaro Kawabata (Aichi-ken, Japan), Daiki Tanaka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Seigo Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage detection unit includes: a voltage detection terminal having a first location configur...