US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Composite energy absorber for electric vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,891, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Composite energy absorber for electric vehicles" was invented by Selina Xinyue Zhao (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Bradley Allen Newcomb (Troy, Mich.), Bhavesh Shah (Troy, Mich.) and Erik Brandon Golm (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy absorbing system includes a structural member and a composite energy absorber including a first member arranged within the structural member. The first member has a first repeating geometric pattern extending in a first direction along a first length, a first width in a second direction tr...