ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,439, issued on March 31, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).
"Extruded thermolastic battery enclosure" was invented by Carlos Pereira Cadena (Putnam Valley, N.Y.), Dinesh Munjurulimana (South Lyon, Mich.) and Anil Tiwari (Maastricht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for housing battery cells arranged in a cluster, the enclosure having a wall formed of a low-cost monolithic extrusion formed of a thermoplastic and defining a plurality of elongate parallel hollows extending across the enclosure. The extrusion can include a metal sheet fastened to one side to provide an ou...