US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 7 for "Traction battery securing assembly and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,693, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Traction battery securing assembly and method" was invented by Dave Moschet (Novi, Mich.), James Lawrence Swoish (Northville, Mich.), Saravanan Paramasivam (South Lyon, Mich.), Rajaram Subramanian (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Himanshu Khandelwal (Warren, Mich.), Peter Conis (Berkley, Mich.), Juan Carlos Leal Rodriguez (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Ali Saad (Troy, Mich.) and Melissa Kathryn Christensen (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack assembly includes, among other things, a tray and a lid. The lid is secured to the tray to pro...