ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,700, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Torqeedo GmbH (Wessling, Germany).

"Wall element for the construction of a housing" was invented by Frank Despineux (Wessling, Germany), Juri Schmidt (Munich) and Dieter Wiedersatz (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a wall element (10) for the construction of a housing to accommodate an energy storage device or to create a cooling plate, comprising a base plate (2) and a flow channel (4) formed in the base plate (2) with a flow cross-section for a cooling medium (6) to flow through, an inlay (8) being disposed in the flow channel (4) in order to ...