ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,435, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Body assembly with a guide element for redirecting a gas flow emerging from an energy storage housing" was invented by Savo Asanin (Munich), Robert Forster (Pfaffenhofen, Germany), Benjamin Koch (Weilheim, Germany), Jan Mueller-Brincken (Munich), Tobias Preuss (Munich) and Constantin Ferdinand Roesler (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body assembly has a vehicle structural element configured to mechanically couple to an energy storage housing. At least one guide element redirects a gas flow emerging from at least one exit port of the energy storage ...