US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Sept. 16 for "Structural battery for an electric vehicle and method of manufacturing" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,411, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Structural battery for an electric vehicle and method of manufacturing" was invented by Daniel Karlsson (Daniel Island, S.C.) and Martin Hjalm Wallborg (Harestad, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack for use in an electric vehicle, includes two longitudinal sill members extending in a length direction L, interconnected at a front side by a transverse front piece and at a distance from the front piece by a transverse member. Two or more rows of battery cells are placed side by side between the sill members. The front piece and the transver...