US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 9 for "Traction battery assembly having a separator sheet" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,797, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery assembly having a separator sheet" was invented by Suriyaprakash Ayyangar Janarthanam (Canton, Mich.), Bhaskara Rao Boddakayala (Troy, Mich.), Neil Robert Burrows (Milford, Mich.), Kanchana Perumalla (Troy, Mich.) and David Fabricatore (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery assembly, includes, among other things, a thermal exchange plate, a battery array, a thermal interface material between the thermal exchange plate and the battery array, and a separator sheet between the thermal exchange plate and the b...