ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,412, issued on July 14, was assigned to Element Energy Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Controllers for managing a plurality of stacks of electrochemical cells, and associated methods" was invented by Seth Marshall Kahn (Sonoma, Calif.), Corrado Cammi (Mountain View, Calif.), Anthony John Stratakos (Edgartown, Mass.) and Rainer Johannes Fasching (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a plurality of stacks of electrochemical cells, where the plurality of stacks are electrically coupled in parallel in a battery. The method includes (a) operating the plurality of stacks to execute a global operating strateg...