ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,092, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power storage device" was invented by Yutaroh Gotoh (Toyota, Japan), Yukinari Tanabe (Okazaki, Japan) and Yugo Mochizuki (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power storage device is a power storage device provided on a lower surface of a floor panel of a vehicle, the power storage device including: a housing case; a power storage module housed in the housing case; and a cooler housed in the housing case to cool the power storage module, wherein the housing case includes a bottom plate, a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is for...