ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,696, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Wireless battery management system safety channel communication layer protocol" was invented by Douglas Dealton Lewis (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods related to wireless battery management system (wBMS) are provided. For example, a wBMS network manager comprises a memory to store a list of hardware identifiers (IDs), wherein each hardware ID in the list is associated with a respective one of a plurality of battery modules; and mapped, based on a predetermined mapping, to a different one of a plurality of source...