US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 4 for "Mitigating airlock in cooling channels for large area cooling systems for batteries" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,852, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Mitigating airlock in cooling channels for large area cooling systems for batteries" was invented by Zhenwen Hu (Shanghai), Kristopher A. Thor (Novi, Mich.), Jian Yao (Shanghai), Chengwu Duan (Shanghai) and Madhusudan Raghavan (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system includes a cooling channel having a nominal width and N longitudinal portions, where N is an integer greater than one. An inlet is connected to an end of a first one of the N longitudinal portions of the cooling channel. An outlet is connected to an end of...