ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,735, issued on July 29, was assigned to John Deere Electric Powertrain LLC (Moline, Ill.).
"Temperature control apparatus" was invented by Kilian Menzl (Linz, Austria), Peter Dobusch (Grunbach, Austria) and Gerhard Waldschutz (Freistadt, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature-control apparatus has individual battery cells combined to form a module and arranged within a flow duct through which a temperature-control fluid flows in a main flow direction. Temperature regulation of a temperature-control apparatus is improved with a constant packing density of the battery cells despite small amounts of temperature-control flu...