US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on April 8 for "Load distributing thermal runaway barrier for a battery cell" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,810, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Load distributing thermal runaway barrier for a battery cell" was invented by Yunshan Liu (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Thomas J. Wang (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load distributing thermal runaway barrier for an energy storage battery cell pack includes a first separator plate, a second separator plate, and at least one first elastic member arranged between the first and second separator plates. Each first elastic member is configured to maintain a first load in response to a pressure applied to at least one of the firs...