ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,424, issued on March 31, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module and battery pack including the same" was invented by Min Seop Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Junyeob Seong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Myungki Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module including: a battery cell stack including a plurality of battery cells; a housing for housing the battery cell stack; and a heat sink located below a bottom part of the housing. The bottom part constitutes an upper plate of the heat sink, the heat sink and the bottom part form a flow passage for a refrigerant, and a conve...