US Patent Issued to AUDI on Nov. 4 for "Undertray component with a sensor device, and battery arrangement with such an undertray component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,344, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Undertray component with a sensor device, and battery arrangement with such an undertray component" was invented by Julius Rausch (Heilbronn, Germany) and Oliver Stoll (Waldbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underbody component for a motor vehicle, with a plate element which has a lower side and an upper side; at least one supporting element arranged on the upper side of the plate element, which is intended to support the plate element against a vehicle side structure and to space it apart. The supporting element is also designed as a partition, which...