US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on June 16 for "Prismatic Inverted-U battery stack geometry" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,507, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Prismatic Inverted-U battery stack geometry" was invented by Anil Yadav (Troy, Mich.) and Srikant Srinivasan (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prismatic battery includes a prismatic battery can having an upper region, a vertical Z-direction along a height of the prismatic battery can, and a horizontal Y-direction along a width of the prismatic battery can. A plurality of stacked battery layers is disposed inside of the prismatic battery can. The stacked battery layers have an in-plane direction and a transverse direction that is perpen...