ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,360, issued on July 7, was assigned to TVS MOTOR Co. Ltd. (Chennai, India).

"Battery thermal management" was invented by Rameshwar Parate Tushar (Chennai, India), Nileshwar Pramila Rao (Chennai, India) and Dhinagar Samraj Jabez (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes: a plurality of cells positioned in a plurality of rows enclosed within a casing, each of the plurality of cells includes at least a first plurality of cells and a second plurality of cells; and a thermal barrier assembly encapsulating the plurality of cells in the plurality of for thermal management of the plurality of cells. The thermal ...