US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Battery mounting structure for vehicle" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,859, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery mounting structure for vehicle" was invented by Horst Heribert Lanzerath (Bad Muenstereifel, Germany), Robert Reiners (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Mohamed Ridha Baccouche (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Fubang Wu (Woodhaven, Mich.) and Vladimir Vladimirovich Bogachuk (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery mounting structure includes a shear plate and a plurality of separate reinforcement plates. The shear plate extends in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and includes a first thickness. The reinforcement plates are configured t...