US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 27 for "Thermally activated retractable EMC protection" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,263, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Thermally activated retractable EMC protection" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Noah Singer (White Plains, N.Y.), Prabjit Singh (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Sadegh Khalili (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for flushing the electrolyte out of an electrolyte flushable battery apparatus during a thermal runaway event. At least one condition of the electrolyte flushable battery apparatus is monitored to detect a potential thermal runaway event based on the at...