US Patent Issued to Element Energy on Sept. 8 for "Fault detection in a battery system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,155, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Element Energy Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Fault detection in a battery system" was invented by Chandan Gope (Cupertino, Calif.), Kevin Yiwei Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.), William Joseph Judge (Redwood City, Calif.) and Yoosok Saw (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signal data may be received from battery node controllers corresponding with battery nodes in a battery system operating in a charging or discharging state. A battery node controller may selectively couple a power bus in the battery system with a battery node including a respective one or more battery cells. Candidate ...