US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 21 for "Vehicle battery assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,002, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle battery assembly" was invented by Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.) and Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a frame including a pair of spaced apart longitudinal members extending along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. Multiple cross-members extend transverse to the vehicle-longitudinal axis and are fastened at each end to a corresponding one of the pair of longitudinal members. A battery tray is positioned above the multiple cross-members and positioned ...