US Patent Issued to Element Energy on Sept. 8 for "Augmentation nodes and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,010, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Element Energy Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Augmentation nodes and associated systems and methods" was invented by Seth Marshall Kahn (Sonoma, Calif.) and Corrado Cammi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for augmenting one or more batteries in an energy storage system includes exchanging energy between one or more first batteries of the energy storage system and a source/load via a plurality of battery power buses. Each of the one or more first batteries is electrically coupled to the plurality of battery power buses without use of a power converter electrically coupl...