ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,001, issued on March 18, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery case for electric vehicle" was invented by Tae Hyuck Kim (Asan-si, South Korea), Jong Wook Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), In Gook Son (Incheon, South Korea), Yun Ho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyeon Jun Kim (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery case for an electric vehicle includes a main body in which a loading region is partitioned off for loading a plurality of battery modules, a sidewall frame forming a sidewall edge portion of the main body and extending upwards, the sid...