ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,585, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Energy storage floor assembly for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, and motor vehicle" was invented by Julian Patscheider (Munich) and Andreas Schleicher (Erdweg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage floor assembly for a motor vehicle has a floor structure, which includes longitudinal members and crossmembers connected to one another as carrier elements, and has an electrical energy store, which is arranged on the bottom side of the floor structure, is connected to the floor structure, and has a storage housing with ...