US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 16 for "Vehicular power supply system with a super capacitor arranged in parallel with a battery unit for managing peak currents" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,717, issued on June 16, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Vehicular power supply system with a super capacitor arranged in parallel with a battery unit for managing peak currents" was invented by Ahmed Abdelhakim (Vasteras, Sweden) and Frans Dijkhuizen (Skultuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular power system includes a battery branch including a battery unit arranged in series with a diode, and a high-capacity unit having a maximum voltage that exceeds a nominal voltage of the battery unit. The battery branch and high-capacity unit are arranged in parallel, to feed a load side of the vehicular pow...