ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,819, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for cooling a battery of a motor vehicle, cooling arrangement, and motor vehicle" was invented by Tammo Grundmann (Ingolstadt, Germany), Carsten Lorenz (Reichertshofen, Germany) and Paul Schneider (GroBmehring, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cooling a battery of a motor vehicle, which includes multiple battery cells, by a cooling device through which a coolant can flow, as part of at least one cooling circuit through which the coolant can flow, which includes at least one coolant pump, which in an active state circulates the coolant pr...