US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on April 14 for "Vehicle subframe" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,410, issued on April 14, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Vehicle subframe" was invented by Barry Lett (Woking, Great Britain), Christophe Sartiaux (Long Beach, Calif.) and Allen Martin Orchard (Shepperton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a subframe section having a first subframe portion and a second subframe portion. The second subframe portion can couple with the first subframe portion at an angled interface having an angle relative to a horizontal plane. The angled interface can decouple the first subframe portion from the second subframe portion and cause the first subf...