US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 8 for "Battery enclosure and method of manufacturing a battery enclosure" (Michigan, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,095, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery enclosure and method of manufacturing a battery enclosure" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Renata Michaela Arsenault (Plymouth, Mich.), Brian Joseph Robert (Saint Clair Shores, Mich.), Ann O'Neill (Dearborn, Mich.), David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.), Kent Snyder (Dearborn, Mich.) and Lorne Forsythe (Wind Lake, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery assembly includes a base including a first locking feature, a lid including a second locking feature, and a metal joint fusing the first locking feature to the...