US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 22 for "Motor vehicle with a drive energy accumulator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,523, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Motor vehicle with a drive energy accumulator" was invented by Thomas Harsch (Munich), Michael Kreitz (Haimhausen, Germany), Julian Patscheider (Munich), Moritz Rittereiser (Munich) and Hadar Sleiman (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger motor vehicle has a body with a passenger compartment, and a drive energy accumulator, in particular a drive energy battery. The drive energy accumulator is arranged or mounted on the body from below and at least part of it forms a floor of the passenger compartment. The motor vehicle also has a temperature-...