US Patent Issued to China Energy Investment, National Institute of Clean-And-Low-Carbon Energy on Dec. 16 for "Controller, system, and method for managing discharge or charge of heterogeneous battery packs" (California, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,436, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to China Energy Investment Corporation Limited (Beijing) and National Institute of Clean-And-Low-Carbon Energy (Beijing).

"Controller, system, and method for managing discharge or charge of heterogeneous battery packs" was invented by Ratnesh Sharma (Fremont, Calif.), Surinder Singh (Fremont, Calif.), Brandon Ohara (Mountain View, Calif.), Motoko Furukawa (San Jose, Calif.) and Roger Keyes (Mission, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller, a system including such a controller, and a method for controlling or managing discharge or charge of a plurality of battery packs are provided. The co...