US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on June 3 for "Battery pack with parallel conductor routing" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,989, issued on June 3, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Battery pack with parallel conductor routing" was invented by Jacob H. Friedrich (Willoughby, Ohio), Robert J. Heydel Jr. (Clawson, Mich.) and Luke R. Barton (Beverly Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack for a direct current (DC) voltage bus includes a battery disconnect unit (BDU) operable for controlling a connection state of the battery pack with respect to the DC voltage bus, first and second battery sections, and six transfer conductors, e.g., busbars or cables/wires. The first battery section has first and second battery ...