US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Structural assembly and vehicle having structural assembly" (Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,808, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Structural assembly and vehicle having structural assembly" was invented by Henry W. Hausler (New Hudson, Mich.), Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Scott J. Bell (Northville, Mich.) and Conor Daniel Hennessey (South Hadley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural assembly for an electric vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a battery structure, a pair of mounting structures, and a plurality of fasteners. The vehicle frame includes opposed longitudinal rails. The battery structure is disposed between the opposed longitudinal rails ...