ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,359, issued on April 14, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Battery thermal barrier systems" was invented by Di Zhu (Novi, Mich.), Bhaskara Rao Boddakayala (Troy, Mich.), Jeffrey Charles Cowell (Canton, Mich.), Brian Utley (Canton, Mich.) and Stefan Paul Pototschnik (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary thermal barrier systems are provided for traction battery packs. Exemplary battery thermal barrier systems may include one or more thermal barrier structures that are positioned between neighboring groupings of battery cells of a cell bank and/or elsewhere within a battery array of the ...