US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Aug. 19 for "Vehicle frame with integral impact mitigation features" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,313, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Vehicle frame with integral impact mitigation features" was invented by Jorge Guillermos Barrios-Albert (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Vamsi Charan Pulugurtha (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Mukund Ganapathy (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for a vehicle frame comprising a first rail member and a second rail member. Each of the first rail member and the second rail member comprise a front rail portion, wherein the front rail portion is configured to provide resistance to deformation to protect a battery pac...