ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,790, issued on June 2, was assigned to FLUENCE ENERGY LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Passive vent system" was invented by Eli Bashevkin (Arlington, Va.), Dhanna Nath Siddh (Arlington, Va.), Vishakh Brahmanand Dwivedi (Arlington, Va.), Prachi Deshpande (Arlington, Va.), Trevor Hargrave (Trevor Hargrave, Va.), Avijit Saha (Arlington, Va.), Christopher Thanaraj (Arlington, Va.) and Prasanna Chinnathambi (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery thermal event management system includes an enclosure to store a plurality of battery modules, one or more ventilation panels, at least one actuator to open the one or more ventilation pane...