ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,374, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Battery-mounted vehicle" was invented by Masayuki Okano (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery-mounted vehicle includes a battery pack mounted at a vehicle lower side of a floor pan of a passenger compartment; a vehicle body frame member having a vertical wall that faces a peripheral wall of the battery pack in a vehicle horizontal direction with a gap therebetween; and an expansion chamber configured by at least one of an inner side concave portion that is formed at the peripheral wall of the battery pack or an outer side concave portion...