US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Mounting clamps for securing groupings of battery cells" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,328, issued on April 15, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Mounting clamps for securing groupings of battery cells" was invented by Micah Joel Smith (Berkley, Mich.), Yongcai Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and George Albert Garfinkel (Westland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes an enclosure assembly, a battery assembly housed within the enclosure assembly, a mounting structure secured to the enclosure assembly, and a mounting clamp that includes a first section mounted to the mounting structure and a second section contacting the battery assembly."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2...