ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,759, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle frames for battery powered electric vehicles" was invented by Saied Nusier (Canton, Mich.), Ridha Baccouche (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Saeed David Barbat (Novi, Mich.), Leonard Anthony Shaner (New Baltimore, Mich.), Srinivasan Sundararajan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rahul Arora (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle frames for battery powered electric vehicles are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a vehicle frame including a first rail and a first rocker on a first side of the vehicle frame, and a second rail and a second roc...