US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on June 2 for "Battery module with improved fire protection performance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,798, issued on June 2, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module with improved fire protection performance" was invented by Seung-Min Ok (Daejeon, South Korea), Yu-Dam Kong (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung-Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Kyu Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Hoo Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Hyun Jo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sung-Goen Hong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module effectively suppresses a fire even when high-temperature gas or sparks are generated therein due to thermal propagation. The battery module includes a cell assembly config...