ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,729, issued on April 21, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Use of polymeric-inorganic nanoparticle compositions as heat transfer fluids in battery or other electrical equipment systems" was invented by Ulrich Fischer (Mombris, Germany), Daniel Ness (Hanau, Germany), Stephan Wieber (Karlsruhe, Germany), Michael Gerhard Hagemann (Shanghai), Gunter Schmitt (Darmstadt, Germany), Jennifer Schrantz (Wendelsheim, Germany), Katharina Dauth (Offenbach, Germany) and Can Metehan Turhan (Dieburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the use of a polymeric-inorganic nanoparticle composition as a...