ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,670, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automobile with battery pack installed over underbody frame" was invented by Jin-Oh Yang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang-Keun Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), In-Hyuk Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hae-Won Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least one battery cell including a vent portion to force gas out; and a pack case in which the at least one battery cell is accommodated such that the vent portion faces a lower side of the battery pack. The vent port...