ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,805, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"System and method for cooling battery cells" was invented by Dapeng Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jinjun Shi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes a battery cell, a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) that cools the battery cell, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the battery cell, and a battery management unit (BMU) controller. The BMU controller activates the TEC to cool the battery cell in response to determining that a state of charge (SOC) of the battery cell is greater than a threshold SOC and the temperature of t...