US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Thermal runaway mitigation battery module" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,131, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Thermal runaway mitigation battery module" was invented by Anil Yadav (Troy, Mich.), Julian Roy Sherborne (South Lyon, Mich.), Wei Zeng (Oakland Township, Mich.) and Scott W. Lananna (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a battery module having a first battery cell, a neighboring second battery cell, and insulating members positioned on opposing sides of the first battery cell. The battery module also includes a battery module enclosure surrounded by an external environment and configured to house each of the first battery ce...