US Patent Issued to Snap-on on July 14 for "Reinforcing frame fixture for electric vehicles" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,463, issued on July 14, was assigned to Snap-on Inc. (Kenosha, Wis.).

"Reinforcing frame fixture for electric vehicles" was invented by Ottoleo Kuter-Arnebeck (Kenosha, Wis.), Nicholas H. Weir (Kenosha, Wis.), Nicholas A. Gabbey (Kenosha, Wis.) and Christian P. Greene (Kenosha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcing frame structure that bolts or otherwise couples in place of a battery assembly of a vehicle, such as an electrically powered vehicle, and provides sufficient longitudinal, transverse, and torsional rigidity to the vehicle when the battery assembly is removed from the vehicle. The reinforcing frame structure can...