US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 18 for "Traction battery pack protection and load distribution strategies" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,065, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack protection and load distribution strategies" was invented by Suriyaprakash Ayyangar Janarthanam (Canton, Mich.), Kanchana Perumalla (Troy, Mich.), Amar Marpu (Canton, Mich.), Michael M. Magoulick (Livonia, Mich.) and Afzal Mohammed (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protection and load distribution strategies are disclosed for electrified vehicle traction battery packs. Exemplary battery protection structures may include a corrugated portion and at least one flat sheet portion that are joined together. The bat...