ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,173, issued on June 24, was assigned to Atlas Copco IAS GmbH (Bretten, Germany).

"Method for producing a battery arrangement" was invented by Marten Tolk (Bruchsal, Germany) and Udo Moessner (Ispringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method produces a battery arrangement which has a battery tray having a tray bottom and a battery received in the battery tray, wherein the battery lies on the battery tray at support points spanning a support plane and wherein, before the battery is inserted into the battery tray, a thermal compound is applied to the tray bottom and/or to the battery bottom in order to fill, at least in part, ...