US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on March 31 for "Carriers for battery cells" (California, Nebraska, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,642, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Carriers for battery cells" was invented by Tyler Jacobs (Hawthorne, Calif.), Darren Yaoshun Ting (Portland, Ore.), Eldon James Summerson (Omaha, Neb.), Diana Kei Eaton (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Matthew Pruett (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier may include a base with several cell bores, with each cell bore designed to carry a battery cell. The carrier may include several walls, with each wall having one or more surfaces that conform to a shape or surface of the battery cell. For example, a surface of the wall may include a...