ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,676, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TVS Motor Co. Ltd. (Chennai, India).

"Energy storage device and a method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Safeer Rahman O C (Chennai, India), Shanmugasundaram Sevanthilingam (Chennai, India), Pramila Rao Nileshwar (Chennai, India) and Samraj Jabez Dhinagar (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage device includes: an outer casing lined with a conductive thermal foam; and a cell assembly including at least one cell holder structure and a plurality of energy storage cells held in the holder structure and being thermally connected by a phase change material. The...