ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,119, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Battery module and power system" was invented by Kousuke Aoki (Kariya-city, Japan) and Tatsuhiro Numata (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power system includes a battery module and a battery ECU. The battery module includes multiple battery stacks. Each of multiple battery stacks includes multiple battery cells, multiple detectors which independently detect physical values of the multiple battery cells, respectively, and multiple individual communicators which wirelessly output detection results of the multiple detectors. Each of the multiple ind...