ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,924, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Frame support apparatus" was invented by Jin Yan (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Orange, Calif.), Akshat Chauhan (Livonia, Mich.) and Christopher Matthews (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include a body having a plurality of walls dividing the body into a plurality of sections along a height of the body. A first wall and an opposing second wall can define a section of the plurality of sections. A middle portion of the first wall can be disposed closer to the second wall in a first direction ...