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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,392, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle battery enclosure includes a first member elongated along an axis and a second member spaced from the first member. The vehicle battery enclosure includes a battery compartment between the first member and the second member. A wing is rotatably connected to the first member and is rotatable relative to the first member fro...