ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,515, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to POSCO Co. LTD (Pohang-si, South Korea).
"Electric vehicle body" was invented by Hong-Woo Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Jaehyun Kim (Incheon, South Korea) and Dong-Yoon Seok (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an electric vehicle body capable of minimizing the intrusion of a collision load into a passenger space and a battery space during a front-end or rear-end collision, and comprises: a front side member having one side coupled to a front bumper beam, and the other side branching off to include a first branch part and a second branch part; a first...