ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,058, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Battery pack temperature acquisition module and system" was invented by Bingjing (Crystal) Xue (Shanghai), Xiao (Nichee) Zhou (Shanghai), Ziwei (Vivi) Li (Shanghai) and Xiaoguang (Field) Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a battery pack temperature acquisition module and system. The battery pack temperature acquisition module has: an insulation body; a temperature sensing element mounted on the insulation body and configured to detect a temperature of a battery cell; and a connection terminal mounted on...