US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Traction battery pack thermal management assembly and thermal management method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,560, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack thermal management assembly and thermal management method" was invented by Francisco Fernandez-Galindo (Canton, Mich.), Jason Luke Sielaff (Brighton, Mich.), Daniel Paul Roberts (Livonia, Mich.) and Liam E. West (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a busbar of a traction battery pack, and at least one terminal of a battery cell of the traction battery pack. The at least one terminal is electrically coupled to the busbar. The assembly further includes a thermal exchange plate, and a thermal i...