US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Liquid curable thermal barrier compositions for electrochemical cells" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,195, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Liquid curable thermal barrier compositions for electrochemical cells" was invented by Bhaskara Rao Boddakayala (Troy, Mich.), Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brian Utley (Canton, Mich.), Thomas Edward Smith (Livonia, Mich.) and Mohammadreza Eftekhari (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical system having a thermal barrier layer is provided. The thermal barrier layer includes a polymer network having an inorganic portion and an organic portion such as silicone or a polysiloxane polymer network. The polymer network...