ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,109, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for servicing high voltage components of a battery system" was invented by Ehsan Baseri (Irvine, Calif.), Kyle Butterfield (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Luke Rayment Morrow (Gilroy, Calif.), Akshay Kishor Murkute (Irvine, Calif.) and Jonathan Verghese (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system for an electric vehicle includes a fixed cover, and a removable cover arranged over battery modules and a high voltage distribution system. The battery system includes a busbar arranged at least partially over a region of...