ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,558, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module, energy storage device, and fuse setting method" was invented by Chang Bog Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Il Moon (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeon Jin Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Kyu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sol Ji Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module in an energy storage device used with a plurality of battery modules in a battery rack and including a rack fuse that cuts off a circuit when an overcurrent occurs includes a battery cell and a module fuse for cutting off a circuit when overc...