ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,300, issued on March 18, was assigned to REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBH (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

"Plate-like fluid container and battery temperature-control assembly" was invented by Felix Senf (Ulm, Germany), Harald Rebien (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Juergen Schneider (Merklingen, Germany), Joachim Schnurrenberger (Leutkirch, Germany), Christian Luksch (Illertissen, Germany) and Gareth D. G. Graves (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a plate-like fluid container for the temperature control of an accumulator device for electrical energy or of an electrical consumer, for example in a motor vehicle, having t...