ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,069, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Low voltage battery-less architecture for electric vehicles" was invented by Kyle Lobo (Westchester, Calif.), Sanjeewa Keven Sugatapala (Long Beach, Calif.), Muhammad Mobeen Mahmood (Irving, Texas), Joseph Daniel Himmelheber (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Baojin Wang (San Marcos, Calif.), Brandon Louis Fennema (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Todd Adams Putnam (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a modular electronic component assembly for a battery pack. The battery pack may be implemented in a v...