US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 16 for "Thermal gradient battery monitoring system and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,532, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Thermal gradient battery monitoring system and methods" was invented by David Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Arun Raghupathy (Pleasanton, Calif.), James Robert Lim (Mountain View, Calif.), Ihab A. Ali (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chang Hong Ye (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a battery, a first temperature sensor configured to provide a first temperature value associated with a temperature of the battery, a heat source disposed proximate to the battery and configured to heat the battery, a second temperature sensor configured to p...