US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Traction battery pack coolant reservoir and coolant management method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,110, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack coolant reservoir and coolant management method" was invented by Nathan Lee (Novi, Mich.), Mihir Devendra Upadhye (Northville, Mich.), Chulheung Bae (Troy, Mich.) and Hassan Farhat (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery pack assembly includes a coolant reservoir that receives coolant from a traction battery pack. The coolant reservoir is configured to receive the coolant in a direction that causes the coolant to swirl within the coolant reservoir."

The patent was filed on June 12, 2023, under App...