US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Battery pack assembly having a thermal barrier and method of thermal control within a battery pack" (Michigan, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,880, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery pack assembly having a thermal barrier and method of thermal control within a battery pack" was invented by Bhaskara Rao Boddakayala (Troy, Mich.), Brian Utley (Canton, Mich.), James Lawrence Swoish (Northville, Mich.), Thomas Edward Smith (Livonia, Mich.) and Nihar Kotak (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack assembly includes a first battery array, a second battery array adjacent the first battery array, and a thermal barrier assembly that blocks transfer of thermal energy between the first battery array and the sec...