ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,748, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Modular electronic component enclosure" was invented by Sriniket Sreenivas Achar (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Akash Thombre (Tustin, Calif.), Piyush Khater (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Bruce Philip Edwards (Menlo Park, Calif.), Suraj Shroff (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tom Jolly (Leicester, Great Britain) and Brandon Louis Fennema (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to an enclosure for one or more electrical components for a battery pack. The enclosure may be configured to mechanically and electricall...