ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,337, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Energy storage device for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle and method for producing an energy storage device" was invented by Dirk Bader (Fellbach, Germany) and Michael Grabowski (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage device for a motor vehicle with a protective device for protecting at least one battery cell of the energy storage device. The energy storage device includes at least one component made of a plastic material. The component is part of the protective device and the plastic material comprises a superabsorbent material, so...