ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,171, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Combined floor assembly and energy storage device, for an electrically driven passenger car" was invented by Florian Erber (Munich), Ronny Grosse (Eichenau, Germany), Piotr Kotlarski (Munich) and Martin Spaeth (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined floor assembly and energy storage device for an electrically driven passenger car includes a floor assembly on the lower face of which an energy storage device of an electric drive of the passenger car is arranged. A holding element, by which a rear end region of the energy storage device is held on t...