US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Dec. 23 for "Electric vehicle battery pack having bottom strike shield" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,208, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Electric vehicle battery pack having bottom strike shield" was invented by Vignesh Sekar (Westland, Mich.), Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Canton, Mich.), Anish Shah (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Tyler Collins (Irvine, Calif.), Zubin Hareshkumar Padia (Canton, Mich.) and Nathaniel C. Wynn (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle battery pack with a strike shield affixed to its bottom. The strike shield provides structural support to withstand ground strikes without damaging the batteries within the battery pack. The strike shield is a mi...