ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,413, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for detecting thermal runaway of battery pack" was invented by Duckgu Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting thermal runaway of a battery pack including a battery module in a master battery management system, the method comprising detecting a communication error with a slave battery management system that detects information on the battery module, if the communication error with the slave battery management system is detected, obtaining temperature of a master board from a temperature sens...