ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,000, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack with efficient cooling path structure and improved safety and vehicle including the same" was invented by Tae-Kyeong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung-Hoon Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young-Il Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes battery modules provided with a heatsink; a pack housing including a floor panel having an upper surface on which the battery modules are placed and a lower surface in which coolant channels for supplying and discharging a coolant to/from the heatsink of the bat...