US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Traction battery assembly having battery pack module and sense lead header and connecting method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,570, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery assembly having battery pack module and sense lead header and connecting method" was invented by Francisco Fernandez-Galindo (Canton, Mich.), Daniel Paul Roberts (Livonia, Mich.) and Nihar Kotak (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery assembly includes, among other things, an array sense lead header of a battery array, a plurality of sense leads extending from the array sense lead header to areas of the battery array, and a battery pack module having a module connector. The battery pack module i...