ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,658, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Battery pack" was invented by Aibei Yang (Tokyo), Takaaki Iijima (Tokyo), Hiroki Itaya (Tokyo) and Itsuki Shimazaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller makes it possible to more securely execute, when a thermal runaway occurs in a battery pack, communications for a fail-safe action with an external device. A controller is configured to execute, when a thermal runaway occurs in a battery pack, communications for a fail-safe action with an external device. A first battery module is arranged on a side farther than the controller in a first direction. A...