US Patent Issued to SERINUS LABS, The Regents of the University of California on June 24 for "Battery cell thermal failure mitigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,634, issued on June 24, was assigned to SERINUS LABS INC (Berkeley, Calif.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Battery cell thermal failure mitigation" was invented by Gordon Charles (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hossain Mohammad Fahad (Berkeley, Calif.) and Ali Javey (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rechargeable energy storage system includes battery cell(s) and a battery management system (BMS) for detecting cell damage prior to the cell(s) entering an irreversible thermal runaway. The BMS includes gas sensor array(s) for detecting gas(es) vented by the cell(s). Each sensor detects a trace ...