US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 2 for "Thermal runaway mitigation system for a rechargeable energy storage system arranged in a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,174, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Thermal runaway mitigation system for a rechargeable energy storage system arranged in a vehicle" was invented by SeungHwan Keum (Northville, Mich.), Ronald O. Grover Jr. (Northville, Mich.), Jian Gao (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Xiaofeng Yang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rechargeable energy storage system (RES S) including a thermal runaway propagation (TRP) mitigation system includes a housing having at least one outlet, a plurality of energy storage cells arranged in the housing, and at least one duct extending along the plurality o...