ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,798, issued on April 8, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module for detecting high temperature of battery cell" was invented by Kyung Jik Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young Su Son (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module according to an embodiment of the present invention is composed of a plurality of battery cells. The battery module includes one positive (+) output terminal formed by connecting the plurality of battery cells, a field effect transistor (FET) provided on a current path between the positive (+) output terminal and...