US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 30 for "Thermal barrier assemblies for traction battery packs" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,129, issued on June 30, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Thermal barrier assemblies for traction battery packs" was invented by Mohammadreza Eftekhari (Novi, Mich.), Kevin Durand Byrd (Novi, Mich.), Kanchana Perumalla (Troy, Mich.) and Jeffrey Scott Dahl (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal barrier assemblies are provided for traction battery packs. An exemplary thermal barrier assembly may be configured to block or even prevent thermal energy associated with a battery thermal event from moving from cell-to-cell, compartment-to-compartment, and/or cell stack-to-cell stack within the t...