US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Filtering assembly for battery array of a traction battery and filtering method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,683, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Filtering assembly for battery array of a traction battery and filtering method" was invented by Bhaskara Rao Boddakayala (Troy, Mich.), Brian Utley (Canton, Mich.), Scott M. Rollins (Highland, Mich.), Liam E. West (Ferndale, Mich.) and Parikshit Gupte (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery assembly includes an array housing that houses battery cells, and a filter layer permitting a flow of gas vented from at least one of the battery cells to an area outside the array housing. The filter layer blocks a flow of p...