ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,279, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Battery pack enclosure having inner and outer walls" was invented by Xiaogang Zhang (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery pack assembly includes an enclosure assembly that houses a plurality of battery cells. The enclosure assembly has an inner wall and an outer wall spaced from the inner wall. A method of enclosing battery cells within a battery pack includes communicating vent byproducts to an open area between an inner wall of a battery pack enclosure and an outer wall of the battery pack enclosure."
The patent was ...