US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 4 for "Battery pack balancing controls for multiple battery pack systems" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,900, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery pack balancing controls for multiple battery pack systems" was invented by Ibrahim Haskara (Macomb, Mich.), Venkata Prasad Atluri (Novi, Mich.), Norman K Bucknor (Troy, Mich.), Chandra S Namuduri (Troy, Mich.) and Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle charging system including a switchable battery having at least two battery packs that are selectively arranged in one of a fast-charging configuration and a drive configuration. The fast-charging configuration includes connecting each of the at le...