US Patent Issued to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS on Feb. 10 for "Integral subframe to direct impact loadpath" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,329, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Integral subframe to direct impact loadpath" was invented by Allen Orchard (Shepperton, Great Britain), Nomaan Khan (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Jiacheng Huang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subframe mount of a front subframe comprising a vehicle frame. The subframe mount comprises a main body configured to receive a securing feature of a frame body of the vehicle frame. The subframe mount also comprises an open-ended slot configured to enable translation of the securing feature independent of the subframe mount in response to an impact ...