ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,719, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Teijin Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and Teijin Automotive Technologies Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Battery tray made of integrally molded fiber reinforced plastics" was invented by Tsukasa Arai (Osaka, Japan), Masatomo Teshima (Osaka, Japan), Shunsuke Tamura (Osaka, Japan) and Hugh Foran (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery tray for mounting a battery for driving a vehicle includes a bottom; a peripheral wall erected on an outer circumference of the bottom; a flange connected to a top of the peripheral wall and extending outwards of the peripheral wall; a first inner wall conn...