ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,669, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Battery temperature regulating apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Naruke (Tokyo), Norio Suzuki (Tokyo), Kazuki Furuta (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Arai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery temperature regulating apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes an onboard battery, a temperature regulating plate configured to allow heat exchange between the onboard battery and a first heat medium flowing into the temperature regulating plate, a heat exchanger, a first passage configured to guide the first heat medium flowing out of the temperature regulating plate to the ...