US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Dielectric liquid evaporative cooling for battery packs" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,878, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Dielectric liquid evaporative cooling for battery packs" was invented by Chih-hung Yen (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Taeyoung Han (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Bahram Khalighi (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Kuo-huey Chen (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wicking assembly for battery cells of a battery cooling system includes a first face plate including vertical plate portions and horizontal plate portions defining openings. A second face plate includes vertical plate portions and horizontal plate portions defining openings. A wicking structure i...