ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,073, issued on May 6, was assigned to Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GMBH (Bremen, Germany).
"Heat shield" was invented by Heribert Walter (Bamberg, Germany), Michael Maag (Herrieden, Germany), Tobias Fritz (Seukendorf, Germany), Markus Gradler (Erlangen, Germany), Jessica Uhlemann (Bubenreuth, Germany) and Thomas Ubler (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a heat shield (1) for use in systems and apparatuses which are operated by batteries, in particular for electric vehicles, wherein the heat shield (1) is constructed at least from an impact-absorbing layer (4), from a heat-protect...