US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Aug. 12 for "Mechanism which enables accessories to receive power when attached to a vehicle bay divider" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,311, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Mechanism which enables accessories to receive power when attached to a vehicle bay divider" was invented by Lindsey Cross (Dana Point, Calif.), Jeremy Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Matthew Blunt (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for a vehicle bay divider comprising a plurality of powered through openings configured to interface with a locking mechanism, where the locking mechanism affixes an accessory to the vehicle bay divider enabling a powered connection between at least one of the through openi...