ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,201, issued on July 8, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Cooled inlet cold plate design for robust electrical isolation" was invented by Thomas Mathews (Cortland, Ohio) and Mark Fredrickson (Rootstown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector assembly includes a connector housing in which a pair of electrically conductive busbars are disposed, a metallic cooling plate in thermal communication with major surfaces of the pair of electrically conductive busbars, and a dielectric structure that is configured to prevent electrical contact between the pair of electrically conductive busba...