ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,906, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module comprising a fire extinguisher, battery rack comprising same, and power storage device" was invented by Young-Seok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Hyun Jo (Daejeon, South Korea), Ji-Won Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung-Hyun Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin-Kyu Shin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes at least one battery cell, a module case configured to accommodate the at least one battery cell, a fire extinguisher disposed at least partially inside the module case and connected to a ...