ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,797, issued on June 2, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module having fire-extinguishing unit including fire-extinguishing material" was invented by Jun Soo Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Bum Young Jung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Han Young Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack has a fire-extinguishing unit including a fire-extinguishing material, and more particularly to a battery module having a fire-extinguishing unit including a fire-extinguishing material, the battery module including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a vertical direction or a horizontal d...