US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 26 for "Battery module with pre-formed battery cell thermal barrier" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,419, issued on May 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery module with pre-formed battery cell thermal barrier" was invented by Chinmaya Patil (South Lyon, Mich.), Venkata Prasad Atluri (Novi, Mich.), Teresa U. Holiness-Stalling (Detroit), John Patrick Spicer (Plymouth, Mich.), Miguel Arturo Saez (Clarkston, Mich.) and David A. Okonski (Waterford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-formed battery cell thermal barrier for a battery module includes a plurality of conductively coupled electrochemical cells and a pre-formed thermal barrier. The battery module can further include a cell holder co...