US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 31 for "Vent feature protection brackets for electrified vehicle traction battery packs" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,451, issued on March 31, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vent feature protection brackets for electrified vehicle traction battery packs" was invented by Eid Farha (Ypsilanti, Mich.), John Sturza (Royal Oak, Mich.), Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Saravanan Paramasivam (South Lyon, Mich.), Kriste Tomovski (Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.), Yongcai Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mohammadreza Eftekhari (Novi, Mich.), Steven Frank (Dearborn, Mich.), Himanshu Khandelwal (Warren, Mich.) and Tamil Arunachalam (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction battery pack for an electrified vehicle ...