US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 27 for "Thermal propagation mitigation of vehicle components" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,903, issued on May 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Thermal propagation mitigation of vehicle components" was invented by Ryan Patrick Hickey (Austin, Texas), Alexander M. Bilinski (Avoca, Mich.) and Phillip Daniel Hamelin (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system for one or more components of a vehicle includes one or more heat generating components, and one or more compartments to contain the one or more heat generating components. One or more vent openings are located in the one or more compartments. Each vent opening of the one or more vent openings are closed ...