US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on July 1 for "Battery module having a cell-unit monitoring structure and monitoring system thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,892, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module having a cell-unit monitoring structure and monitoring system thereof" was invented by Ju Kyoung Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kyungmo Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Seung-Beom Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module having a cell-unit monitoring structure is provided. The battery module includes a battery cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of pouch-type battery cells, a case configured to cover the battery cell stack through an assembly structure of a plu...