ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,100, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Modular system and method for producing design variants of a housing element for an electric storage device of a motor vehicle" was invented by Clemens Bergmann (Munich), Jan Danneberg (Munich), Marc Reinstettel (Munich) and Martin Schiebel (Baldham, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular system produces design variants of a housing element for a storage housing of a storage device which has multiple storage cells that can be arranged in a receiving area of the storage housing. At least one universal housing part delimits the receiving area. A desi...