US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 25 for "Cooling device for an electric drive unit of a motor vehicle, drive unit and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,704, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Cooling device for an electric drive unit of a motor vehicle, drive unit and motor vehicle" was invented by Thomas Herrmann (Illerkirchberg, Germany), Thinh Nguyen-Xuan (Erding, Germany), Fabian Rattei (Weilheim i.OB, Germany), Rene Treffler (Augsburg, Germany) and Juntao Zhu (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device for an electric drive unit of a motor vehicle includes a housing and at least one cooling structure. The housing is configured to receive the at least one component of the drive unit. The housing, at least in some regions thereof...