ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,245, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Energy storage unit with integrated two-phase cooling" was invented by Tianyi Gao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed of an energy storage unit. The unit includes a battery housing and a battery stack positioned in the battery housing. The battery stack includes N vertically stacked battery packs, Nless than=2, and the N battery packs include at least a bottom battery pack and a top battery pack. N fluid channels formed in the battery housing, with each fluid channel fluidly coupled to a corresponding battery pack and ex...