ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,322, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Battery pack venting assembly and venting method" was invented by Xiaogang Zhang (Novi, Mich.), Steven Wooldridge (Manchester, Mich.) and Jianwen Yi (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack venting assembly includes a battery pack vent that communicates a flow of vent byproducts from a battery pack. The battery pack vent has a coolant passage that communicates a coolant to manage thermal energy levels within the flow of vent byproducts. The coolant can be a liquid coolant. The battery pack vent can be configured to co...