US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on May 5 for "Thermal management system for a battery and methods of using the system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,651, issued on May 5, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Thermal management system for a battery and methods of using the system" was invented by Eytan Adler (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Joaquim R.R.A. Martins (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for using a thermal management system to cool a battery cell. The disclosed devices include a housing, a plurality of battery cells, a coolant loop, a circulation pump, a refrigerator, and a control valve for periodically reversing the flow of coolant within the coolant loop."

The patent was filed on March 7, ...