ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,383, issued on April 14, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack venting systems with enclosure assembly integrated vent exhaust channels" was invented by Suriyaprakash Ayyangar Janarthanam (Canton, Mich.), Kanchana Perumalla (Troy, Mich.) and Mohammadreza Eftekhari (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure details exemplary traction battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary traction battery pack may include a venting system having one or more vent exhaust channels. The vent exhaust channels may be integrated with an enclosure assembly of the b...