ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,391, issued on April 15, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack comprising extinguishment unit" was invented by Jin-Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes at least one battery module arranged in one direction and having a cell assembly including a plurality of secondary batteries arranged in one direction; and a fire extinguishing unit having a fire extinguishing tank configured to contain a fire extinguishing agent therein, a pipe connected to the fire extinguishing tank to supply the fire extinguishing agent from the fire extinguishing tank to the at ...