US Patent Issued to Celgard on April 15 for "System and method for differentiating shorting in a battery" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,348, issued on April 15, was assigned to Celgard LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for differentiating shorting in a battery" was invented by Zhengming Zhang (Rock Hill, S.C.) and Weifeng Fang (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for differentiating short circuiting in a battery includes: a detector coupled to the battery; a monitor in communication with the detector, the monitor including a profile of a battery shorting behavior, and a comparator for matching data from the detector to the profile; and a controller for taking action based upon information from the detector. A method for detecting short circ...