ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,623, issued on March 3, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Cooling device, energy store, and method for cooling an energy store on both sides" was invented by Wolfgang Beck (Aichach, Germany), Uwe Gerlinger (Kipfenberg, Germany), Johannes Haf (Neuburg, Germany), Joohwa Sarah Lee (Ingolstadt, Germany), Thomas Milde (Wustenrot, Germany), Martin Lindner (Wellheim, Germany), Dirk Hoefner (Wellheim, Germany) and Martin Schussler (Kosching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device for an energy store for cooling a cell group on both sides, having a first cooling unit for a first side of the cell group and a seco...