ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,866, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Textron Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Thermal management of electrical energy storage pack of a vehicle" was invented by Trevor Douglas Roebuck (Evans, Ga.), Robert Charles Bradley (Augusta, Ga.), Patrick Dwaine Warden (Evans, Ga.) and Donny Hammond (Augusta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques involve utilizing a ducting system for an electric vehicle. The ducting system includes a motor housing constructed and arranged to house at least a portion of an electric propulsion motor of the electric vehicle. The ducting system further includes a storage pack housing coupled with the motor hou...