ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,805, issued on May 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method to automate gas leak detection in battery manufacturing using data from optical gas imaging system" was invented by Alok Warey (Novi, Mich.), Siddhartha Gupta (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Hassan Ghassemi-Armaki (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated system to provide gas leak detection during battery manufacturing includes a battery system. A video of a gas leak occurring during a manufacturing stage of the battery system includes the gas leak as a gas vapor. A location of the gas leak is determined. A leak intensity v...