US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Dec. 16 for "Prismatic battery can with a thermally conductive insert" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,284, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Prismatic battery can with a thermally conductive insert" was invented by Liang Xi (Northville, Mich.), Alexander M. Bilinski (Avoca, Mich.), Lei Wang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Srikant Srinivasan (Novi, Mich.) and SriLakshmi Katar (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical design of a rechargeable battery cell (e.g., a Lithium-ion battery) disposed inside of a prismatic can, for use in electric vehicles and other electric-powered devices. The improved design uses a thermally conductive insert to divide the battery cell into two adjac...