ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,178, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Battery pack" was invented by Kum-Yul Hwang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Woongbin Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Junseop Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kwan Il Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack having at least one cell module that is connected between a plurality of pack terminals, the battery pack including: at least one thermoelectric element disposed at each of the at least one cell modules; a thermoelectric element power supply circuit configured to supply a driving voltage to the at least one thermoelectri...