ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,309, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Heat exchanger plate and method for producing a heat exchanger plate" was invented by Tobias Duepmeier (Paderborn, Germany), Guenter Fortmeier (Delbrueck, Germany), Elmar Grussmann (Altenbeken, Germany) and Carsten Bickmann (Lichtenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling plate for battery cooling has a plate body formed from two plate elements and a connecting piece for a cooling fluid. The connecting piece has a connection section which is joined in a receiving section of the plate body formed between the plate elements. The co...