ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,328, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Element Energy Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for thermal management of an energy storage system" was invented by Nathan Thomas Brinkerhoff (Santa Clara, Calif.), Corrado Cammi (Mountain View, Calif.), Arnaud Devie (Menlo Park, Calif.), Rainer Johannes Fasching (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Seth Marshall Kahn (Sonoma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for thermal management performed by a controller of an energy storage system, where the energy storage system includes at least a first battery module, a second battery module, a first battery management system (BMS) node, ...