US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on April 22 for "Vehicle structure comprising an energy store" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,827, issued on April 22, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle structure comprising an energy store" was invented by Andre Limburg (Munich), Julian Patscheider (Munich), Alexander Rupp (Munich) and Paul Winkler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle structure has an energy store receiving space in which an electrochemical energy store is received and is delimited at below by a lower cross member and above by an upper cross member, a longitudinal profile, and a deformation space arranged geometrically between the longitudinal profile and the electrochemical energy store. The electrochemical energy sto...