ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,219, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery tray and power battery pack" was invented by Zhenghua Ren (Shenzhen, China), Zhipei Lu (Shenzhen, China), Kun Guo (Shenzhen, China), Qingbo Peng (Shenzhen, China) and Yan Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a battery tray and a power battery pack. The battery tray includes a tray body. The tray body includes a base plate, a side beam, and several partition plates, the side beam is disposed around the base plate and defines, together with the base plate, an accommodating space for battery cells. The partition plates are dispos...