ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,005, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Method to control multiple parallel battery packs" was invented by Alexander C. Crosman III (Dunlap, Ill.) and Joseph Oluwagbeminiyi Oyekan (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a machine battery system having multiple battery packs connectable in parallel includes bringing a first battery pack with the highest offline pack voltage online for discharging, including a pack controller circuit of the first battery pack bringing one or more individual battery strings of the first battery pack online; bringing a next bat...