ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,680, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kirchhoff Automotive Deutschland GmbH (Attendorn, Germany).

"Temperature control device for a battery housing" was invented by Alexander Gunther (Olpe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature control device of a battery housing for a vehicle which is driven by an electric motor. The temperature control device is divided into multiple temperature control cells, and each temperature control cell has a heat exchange surface for transferring heat from a battery module, which is inserted into the temperature control cell and which is to be temperature-controlled, into the temperature co...