ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,032, issued on March 18, was assigned to QuantumScape Battery Inc..
"Battery control systems" was invented by Weston Arthur Hermann (San Jose, Calif.) and William H. Gardner (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein relate to the design of battery stacks, batteries and battery packs that are able to accommodate volumetric expansion in the battery materials. These designs may be especially useful in connection with batteries having negative electrodes made of lithium metal and/or positive electrodes made of an electrochemically active conversion material. These batteries may expand on the order of 10...