ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,171, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Underbody arrangement" was invented by Jan Danneberg (Munich) and Ronny Grosse (Eichenau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underbody arrangement of a high-voltage storage device, which is overlapping with a floor panel of an electrically operable motor vehicle, in which the floor panel having at least one opening is arranged at least in some regions in the direction of the vehicle height so as to overlap with the high-voltage storage device, which includes a plurality of battery cells arranged on a base element. The at least one opening is arrange...