US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Controls on Oct. 20 for "Trigger cell for triggering thermal runaway in batteries" (New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,936, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BAE Systems Controls Inc. (Endicott, N.Y.).

"Trigger cell for triggering thermal runaway in batteries" was invented by Joshua P. Stewart (Vestal, N.Y.), Matthew S. Boecke (Endicott, N.Y.), Peter J. Arnold (Endicott, N.Y.), Jay R. Johnson (Vestal, N.Y.), Jamie-Lynn Ganoung (Chenango Forks, N.Y.), Thomas E. Yale Jr. (Johnson City, N.Y.), Robert J. Arbogast (Binghamton, N.Y.) and William J. Doak (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for testing thermal runaway in a battery cell includes a first layer of first dielectric material at least in part wrapped around the battery cell, and...