US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 24 for "Central connection of an energy storage structure in a vehicle floor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,181, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Central connection of an energy storage structure in a vehicle floor" was invented by Jan Danneberg (Munich), Christian Mangold (Hilgertshausen, Germany) and Josef Stenger (Raubling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle floor has a carrier beam structure that has a plurality of beams; a floor structure that has at least one floor panel; and an energy storage structure that is fastened to an underside of the beam structure and/or the floor structure such that the energy storage structure is supported on a support region of the floor panel by at ...