ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,668, issued on April 7, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery pack and electric vehicle" was invented by Liangwen Tan (Shenzhen, China), Jing Tan (Shenzhen, China) and Wenhui Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a tray and a plate. The tray has an accommodating space. The accommodating space has a top opening. The plate is disposed at the top opening of the accommodating space. The plate includes an inner surface facing the accommodating space and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. A plurality of cooling pipes sequentially arranged are disposed on the outer surfa...