ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,272, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Temperature control device for the temperature control of an electrical energy store for a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Christian Allgaeuer (Munich), Thomas Glass (Mainburg, Germany), Dominik Gruber (Munich), Alexander Lichtenberger (St. Peter in der Au, Austria), Rene Pichlbauer (Sankt Marien, Austria) and Andreas Siuka (Kematen an der Krems, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature control device for temperature control of an electrical energy store for a motor vehicle includes a feed line element which is flushable by a te...