ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,850, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KAUTEX TEXTRON GmbH & Co. KG (Bonn, Germany) and FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Battery housing for traction battery and traction battery for motor vehicle" was invented by Guido Schafer (Bornheim, Germany), Stefan Lenz (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany), Felix Haas (Bonn, Germany), Georg Enkirch (Salz, Germany), Muhamed Mulalic (Cologne, Germany), Marcel Kruger (Bonn, Germany), Mohammadreza Eftekhari (Novi, Mich.), Patrick Daniel Maguire (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kanchana Perumalla (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery housing for a traction battery. The battery housin...