US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on May 12 for "Battery cell thermal runaway barrier" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,966, issued on May 12, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Battery cell thermal runaway barrier" was invented by Shailendra B. Rathod (St. Paul, Minn.), Patrick Welter (Bisingen, Germany), Gary F. Howorth (Oakdale, Minn.), Claus Middendorf (Neuss, Germany), Kerstin C. Rosen (Cologne, Germany), Tien Wu (Woodbury, Minn.), Heonjoo Ha (Woodbury, Minn.) and Martin Schaschke (Menden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal runaway barrier for at least significantly slowing down a thermal runaway event within a battery assembly. The thermal runaway barrier consisting essentially of a single-layer of a no...