US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 22 for "Thermal management of battery modules and strings" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,314, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Thermal management of battery modules and strings" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Dave G. Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes: first and second positive terminals and a negative terminal; switches; at least two battery modules, each of the battery modules including at least three strings of battery cells configured to, at different times be: connected in series and to the first positive terminal via first ones of the switches; connected in parallel and to the second positive te...