ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,145, issued on June 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Energy-store floor assembly for an electrically drivable passenger car" was invented by Ronny Grosse (Eichenau, Germany) and Martin Schuster (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy-store floor assembly for an electrically drivable passenger car, the energy-store floor assembly having a floor assembly, on the bottom side of which an energy storage device of an electric drive of the passenger car is fixed. Lateral side receptacles, in the region of which a separate fastening point is located to which the energy storage device can be fastened, are posi...