ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,270, issued on April 29, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack including gas sensing apparatus using Mie scattering and gas detection method using the same" was invented by Gi Moon Gil (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jee Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack is capable of sensing the generation of a gas using Mie scattering, whereby it is possible to rapidly detect abnormality of the battery pack. In addition, whether a battery is abnormal is determined in consideration of a gas generation time as well as the generation of the gas, whereby it is possible to rapidly ...