ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,981, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CARL FREUDENBERG KG (Weinheim, Germany).
"Energy storage system" was invented by Peter Kritzer (Forst, Germany), Reiner Dirr (Munich), Olaf Nahrwold (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Rudolf Gattringer (Tragwein, Austria) and Olivier Jeanne (St Junien, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system includes: a housing, in which volume-variable storage cells are arranged; and a device for controlling a temperature of the storage cells, the device being assigned to the storage cells. The device has contact sections for contacting the storage cells. The device has flexible regions for adapti...