US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 14 for "Force based abnormality detection in battery pack modules" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,864, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Force based abnormality detection in battery pack modules" was invented by Jeremie Dernotte (Rochester, Mich.), Arun S. Solomon (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Scott E. Parrish (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Wei Zeng (Oakland Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a battery pack module and a control module. The battery pack module is configured to be implemented in a battery pack. The battery pack module includes cells and one or more force sensors configured to generate at least one force signal indicative of force on the cells...