US Patent Issued to SK On on Sept. 15 for "Secondary battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,596, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Secondary battery" was invented by Byung Jun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Hyun Chang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a battery assembly including a plurality of sub-packing units, the plurality of sub-packing units respectively including a cell housing, at least one battery cell accommodated in an internal space of the cell housing, and at least one vent hole disposed in the cell housing and connecting the internal space to an outside of the cell housing, and a flame blocking structure coupled to the b...