US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Short circuit based puncture detection for BEV protection plates" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,365, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Short circuit based puncture detection for BEV protection plates" was invented by David R. Eilken (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taesoo Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jason Cremer (Stockbridge, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems for determining a battery electric vehicle (BEV) protection plate has been damaged. A BEV protection plate includes a circuit. The circuit includes a plurality of conductive tabs. The BEV protection is separated from a battery housing by an opening...