US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "Battery housing" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,848, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Battery housing" was invented by Dustin Irvin Landwehr (Kewanee, Ill.), David Yokell (Irving, Texas), Brian Cole (Dunlap, Ill.), Bhavin Nareshkumar Mehta (Bangalore, India), Richu Gheevarghese Samuel (Kerala, India), Narayanaswamy Kudithipati (Bangalore, India) and Tyler Mullen (Metamoia, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module housing includes a bottom wall and a pair of sidewalls. At least one of the bottom wall, and the pair of sidewalls is a wall comprising a plurality of fluid channels extending an entire length of the wall, each of the plural...