ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,441, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vibration isolators for electric vehicle-battery enclosure" was invented by Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle-battery enclosure including an upper plate and a lower plate spaced downwardly from the upper plate. The vehicle includes a vehicle battery between the upper plate and the lower plate. The vehicle includes vibration isolators, including a first vibration isolator and a second vibration isolator, betwee...