ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,975, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Structural battery comprising cooling channels" was invented by Daniel Karlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Martin Hjalm Wallborg (Harestad, Sweden), Simone Vizzini (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Klas Persson (Kungalv, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery assembly for an electric vehicle includes two spaced-apart longitudinal profiles extending in a length direction L, interconnected to a front and a rear transverse beam. At least three beam shaped battery modules are interconnected along their longitudinal sides via a plate-shaped interconnecting member, a...