US Patent Issued to BETA AIR on Aug. 26 for "Apparatus and method for fault detection in a battery module" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,073, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BETA AIR LLC (South Burlington, Vt.).

"Apparatus and method for fault detection in a battery module" was invented by Grayson King (South Burlington, Vt.), Cullen Jemison (South Burlington, Vt.), Myles Tallada (South Burlington, Vt.) and Stuart Schreiber (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A apparatus for fault detection for use in an electric aircraft is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a battery module with a plurality of battery cells, a plate extending along the row of cells, insulation between the plate and the plurality of cells, a sensor configured to detect a po...