US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Battery configuration for a hybrid or electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,736, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery configuration for a hybrid or electric vehicle" was invented by Chi Paik (Grosse Ile, Mich.), Di Zhu (Novi, Mich.) and Kyungjin Park (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes an array of cells and an insulating plate. The array of cells is arranged in first and second subsets of cells. The first and second subsets of cells define a space therebetween. The insulating plate has a central region disposed within the space. The insulating plate has first and second lateral regions disposed external to the spac...