US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on Feb. 24 for "Battery thermal management system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,995, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Battery thermal management system and method" was invented by Ernest Villanueva (San Francisco), Nathaniel Martin (Santa Cruz, Calif.), JoeBen Bevirt (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jonathan Wagner (Belmont, Calif.), Kevin Witt (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Brian Uznanski (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Austin Newman (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery thermal management system includes a battery pack, a circulation subsystem, and a heat exchanger. The system can optionally include a cooling system, a reservoir, a de-ionization filter, a battery charge...