US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Traction battery pack coating clearing feature and coating clearing method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,872, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery pack coating clearing feature and coating clearing method" was invented by Ryan Scott Gray (Farmington Hills, Mich.), James Patrick Morency Jr. (Fraser, Mich.) and Alexander Robert Rink (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle assembly includes an enclosure assembly of a battery pack. The enclosure assembly has a coating. An attachment point is disposed within the enclosure assembly. The enclosure assembly is secured directly to the attachment point. The assembly includes a coating clearing featur...