ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,869, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Fuel storage assembly for a motor vehicle" was invented by Jean-Paul Jaussaud (Luzinay, France) and Frederic Grenier (La Talaudiere, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel storage assembly for a motor vehicle has four fuel tanks arranged to form each a corner of a substantially square cross-section of a tank array, a spacer arrangement keeps said fuel tanks apart, said spacer arrangement comprising at least one side bracket disposed along one of the vertical peripheral sides of the tank array, the at least one side bracket being arranged to be fixed ...