ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,474, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack power cutting off apparatus" was invented by Sung Gun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack power cutting off apparatus is discussed, and includes a power cutoff configured to block a line through which a charge/discharge current of a battery module flows, a communicator configured to receive an operation signal of the power cutoff from an external device, and a switching configured to control to apply power to a heater resistor included in the power cutoff based on an operation signal of the power c...