US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MALTA on Nov. 3 for "Battery system and method with evaporative cooling" (Maltese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,175, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MALTA (Msida, Malta).

"Battery system and method with evaporative cooling" was invented by Robert Camilleri (Msida, Malta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes a pressure vessel with a lid which encloses a battery pack having at least one battery cell in thermal contact with a porous wick. The battery pack is partly submerged in a heat transfer fluid, which is in a liquid phase. Evaporation of the heat transfer fluid from the porous wick maintains the temperature of the battery cell within an operational temperature range."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2019, ...