ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,570, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oerlikon Friction Systems (Germany) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Thermal insulating mat for battery systems" was invented by Heribert Walter (Bamberg, Germany), Michael Maag (Herrieden, Germany), Tobias Fritz (Seukendorf, Germany), Alex Thomaschpolski (Nuremberg, Germany), Jessica Uhlemann (Bubenreuth, Germany) and Thomas Ubler (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a thermal insulating mat (1) for insulating adjacent battery cells (2), in particular prismatic battery cells, in battery systems, comprising an elastically deformable base plate (7) made o...