US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on July 28 for "Balancing method of a switchable battery device by short-circuiting of its output" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,317, issued on July 28, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Balancing method of a switchable battery device by short-circuiting of its output" was invented by Leandro Cassarino (Grenoble Cedex, France), Sylvain Bacquet (Grenoble Cedex, France), Ghislain Despesse (Grenoble Cedex, France), Eric Fernandez (Grenoble Cedex, France), Yan Lopez (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Remy Thomas (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack device includes a plurality of energy storage elements configurable in series, each element having at least one switch to selectively con...