US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 23 for "Structural support assembly including an inflatable member for an electric vehicle battery system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,239, issued on June 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Structural support assembly including an inflatable member for an electric vehicle battery system" was invented by Masoud MohammadPour (Novi, Mich.), Andrew Clay Bobel (Troy, Mich.), William Yu Chen (Troy, Mich.) and Qaiser Khan (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery assembly includes a housing having a plurality of side walls that collectively define an interior zone. A plurality of battery cells is arranged in the interior zone. A support assembly connected to the housing supports the plurality of battery cells. The support assemb...