ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,750, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Air cooling system for an electric vehicle" was invented by Ian Wright (Fremont, Calif.) and Irfan Nadiadi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a first battery housing to house a plurality of first battery modules, and an air cooling system to cool the plurality of first battery modules. The air cooling system includes a compressor, a condenser, and an evaporator coil. The evaporator coil includes a first side at which warm air is received and a second side at which cool air exits after having passed through the evaporator coil, and the ...