ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,409, issued on June 30, was assigned to ALPHA ESS Co. LTD. (Nantong, China).

"Interlock device, energy storage system, control method, and device thereof" was invented by Liyan Sun (Nantong, China), Xiuli Si (Nantong, China), Jintao Ma (Nantong, China), Xiongjiang Liu (Nantong, China) and Haiyan Zhang (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interlock device, an energy storage system, a control method, and a control apparatus are provided. The interlock device includes a first interlock circuit, a first drive processing circuit, a first drive status feedback circuit, a second interlock circuit, a second drive processing circ...