ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,595, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Battery housing for an energy storage device, energy storage device for a motor vehicle, and method for discharging a gas-particle mixture from a battery housing" was invented by Jens Fronemann (Simmelsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery housing for an energy storage device, the battery housing has a receiving area for accommodating a battery unit. In this case, a gas discharge channel is integrated into the battery housing, which gas discharge channel has an interior space that is spatially delimited by a channel wall. At least one gas inlet...