US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG SDI on May 5 for "Method of detecting an operating condition of a battery system, which may lead to a thermal runaway" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,644, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method of detecting an operating condition of a battery system, which may lead to a thermal runaway" was invented by Andrej Golubkov (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes a battery pack including battery cells and a cooling system including a coolant transfer member for circulating a liquid coolant in a cooling circuit, a first heat exchanger integrated into the cooling circuit and thermally contacting the battery cells, and a pressure sensor for detecting a change in pressure inside the cooling circuit. A battery man...