US Patent Issued to Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche on June 30 for "Traction battery for an electrically or semi-electrically driven vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,121, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Traction battery for an electrically or semi-electrically driven vehicle" was invented by Ralf Bauer (Neckarsulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery for an electrically or semi-electrically driven vehicle. The traction battery includes at least one temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is configured as an infrared sensor and includes a sensor array having several sensor elements for spatially resolved detection of the temperature of a surface of one or more components of the traction battery. A deflection optic is ar...