US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 8 for "Thermal runaway prognosis by detecting abnormal cell voltage and SOC degeneration" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,788, issued on July 8, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Thermal runaway prognosis by detecting abnormal cell voltage and SOC degeneration" was invented by Yue-Yun Wang (Troy, Mich.) and Andrew C. Baughman (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, system and method for monitoring an occurrence of thermal runaway in a battery pack of the vehicle. The system includes a plurality of voltage sensors and a processor. The plurality of voltage sensors obtains a plurality of voltage measurements at each of a plurality of battery cells of the battery pack. The processor is configured to determin...