ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,336, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Battery monitoring system for measuring hydrogen concentration to detect battery cell overtemperature and predict thermal runaway" was invented by Michelle H. Wiebenga (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Rasoul Salehi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Lei Wang (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Wei Li (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring system includes a hydrogen sensing system configured to selectively measure a plurality of hydrogen concentrations in a plurality of battery cells, respectively. A controller is configured to detect battery cell ...