US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on March 18 for "Dispersion of stored energy within a battery system at risk of failure" (New Mexico, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,296, issued on March 18, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Dispersion of stored energy within a battery system at risk of failure" was invented by Jacob Mueller (Albuquerque, N.M.), Yuliya Preger (Albuquerque, N.M.), John C. Hewson (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Andrew Kurzawski (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for dispersing stored energy in an energy storage system to delay or arrest propagation of thermal runaway and thermally-induced cascading failures. The system includes a plurality of battery sub-assemblies and DC-DC converters connected t...