ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,305, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Estes Energy Solutions Inc. (San Francisco).
"Thermo-structural battery packs and systems" was invented by Dustin Grace (San Francisco), Cagkan Yildiz (San Mateo, Calif.), David Lai (San Francisco) and Kassem Alhussein (Millbrae, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermally managed electric vehicle battery packs and systems comprising a battery sub-packs designed to mate and coupled together such that the sub-packs define a battery cell compartment comprising a first set of battery cells and a second set of battery cells. The sub-packs can comprise integrated coolant compartments, ancillary ...