US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 22 for "Battery attachment for vehicles" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,524, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Battery attachment for vehicles" was invented by Akash Thombre (Tustin, Calif.), Piyush Khater (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Adam Richard Ballard (Corona, Calif.) and Andrew O'Bannon (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a battery-to-subframe attachment for a vehicle. The battery-to-subframe attachment may form a load path from a front subframe of a vehicle to one or more longitudinal members of a battery pack for the vehicle. This attachment may help to utilize the mass and strength of a battery pack ...