ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,090, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module including base plate having gas discharge passage, and battery pack and energy storage system including the same" was invented by Jae-Min Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong-O Mun (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun-Gyu Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yoon-Koo Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module including a base plate, a front cover at a first end of the base plate and a rear cover at a second end of the base plate, the rear cover spaced from the front cover in a first direction, a pair of gas discharge pass...