US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Oct. 20 for "3-sided cooling of a battery pack with dual-function cooling plates" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,956, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"3-sided cooling of a battery pack with dual-function cooling plates" was invented by Ryan P. Hickey (Austin, Texas), Phillip D. Hamelin (Clarkston, Mich.) and Alexander M. Bilinski (Avoca, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-function, combined thermal/structural structure for simultaneously holding and cooling one or more battery cells that are stacked inside of a battery pack. The dual-function structure comprises: (1) a first cooling plate with a first plurality of parallel internal coolant channels; (2) a second cooling plate with a sec...