ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,735, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Structural energy storage for CF based personal mobility and lightweight delivery" was invented by Jae Seung Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Paul Gilmore (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile apparatus includes a motion action portion. The motion action portion including a frame portion, at least part of the frame portion including a structural battery, the structural battery including one or more energy storage devices. Each of the one or more energy storage devices having at least one anode core of a continuous ...