ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,677, issued on April 22, was assigned to KAUTEX TEXTRON GmbH & Co. KG (Bonn, Germany).

"Battery housing assembly with heat transfer device, and traction battery with battery housing assembly" was invented by Felix Haas (Bonn, Germany), Moritz Lipperheide (Bonn, Germany) and Georg Enkirch (Salz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery housing assembly includes a battery housing which encloses an interior for receiving a plurality of battery cells. A heat transfer device which has an inlet, an outlet, and at least one fluid channel arranged fluidically therebetween. The fluid flows through the heat transfer device from the inle...