US Patent Issued to QuantumScape Battery on May 27 for "Thermal management system for vehicles with an electric powertrain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,805, issued on May 27, was assigned to QuantumScape Battery Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Thermal management system for vehicles with an electric powertrain" was invented by Kevin Hettrich (Mountain View, Calif.), Tomasz Wojcik (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Weston Arthur Hermann (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent application is directed to thermal management systems of vehicles with an electric powertrain. More specifically, the battery system and one or more powertrain components and/or cabin climate control components of a vehicle share the same thermal circuit as the battery module through which heat can be exchan...