US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Vacuum insulated thermal barrier structures for traction battery packs" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,824, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vacuum insulated thermal barrier structures for traction battery packs" was invented by Larry Dean Elie (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Mark Meinhart (Dexter, Mich.), Jeremy Santiago (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Richard Werth (Milan, Mich.) and John Cornell (Allenton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary traction battery pack designs are described for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary traction battery pack may include one or more thermal barrier structures. In some implementations, each thermal barrier structure may include both a heat exchanger por...