ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,096, issued on July 14, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Online detection apparatus for storage battery" was invented by Haipeng Song (Beijing), Yuxiao Yan (Beijing), Shushi Guo (Beijing) and Shanyuan Gao (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online detection apparatus for a storage battery is provided. The battery, serving as standby power, is connected in parallel with a power supply in an electric device circuit. The apparatus includes a control unit, a discharge circuit, and a battery monitoring unit. After detecting a trigger event, the control unit instructs the discharge circuit to boost the ba...