ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,145, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Battery tray" was invented by Christian Handing (Langenberg, Germany), Kai Michel (Salzkotten, Germany) and Stefan Schmitz (Bielefeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery tray for holding battery elements for providing electrical energy in electrically powered vehicles. The battery tray has a battery pan having a reinforcing structure which is arranged on the outside in front of a side wall of the battery pan. The reinforcement structure has a hollow profile with a first upper leg with a first opening and a second lower leg with...