ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,219, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Inverted battery pack assembly" was invented by Lu Huang (Troy, Mich.), Hui-ping Wang (Troy, Mich.), Dohyun Leem (Birmingham, Mich.), Joshua Lee Solomon (Berkley, Mich.), Derek Frei Lahr (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Blair E. Carlson (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rechargeable energy storage system for a vehicle including a bottom shear plate and a side enclosure having a bottom end connected to the bottom shear plate. A top shear plate is connected to a top end of the side enclosure and a plurality of battery cells are suspended fr...