ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,582, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module including swelling relief unit" was invented by Jae Hwan Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Bong Keun Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a battery module including a swelling relief unit, and more particularly a battery module including a cell stack constituted by one or more stacked battery cells and a module case configured to receive the cell stack therein, wherein a swelling relief unit is disposed so as to face an outermost battery cell disposed at an outermost side of the c...