ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,896, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Liquid cooling system for an electric vehicle" was invented by Ian Wright (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a chassis, a housing to house one or more battery modules, the housing being supported by the chassis, an electric motor to receive electrical power from the one or more battery modules, a liquid cooling system including a radiator to cool a coolant when the coolant flows through the radiator, and one or more coolant pumps connected to the radiator to circulate the coolant, and an air cooling system to cool the one or more bat...