US Patent Issued to Google on March 31 for "Battery pack with integrated heater" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,427, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Battery pack with integrated heater" was invented by David Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Pak Heng Lau (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lauren Francine Chanen (San Francisco) and James Robert Lim (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to a battery having a heating element. A connector of the battery includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a heater terminal. One or more rechargeable battery cells are electrically coupled to the first and second terminals of the connector. The heating element is in contact with a subs...