US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 24 for "Electric vehicle energy storage systems including dc-dc power converters operable in selected operating modes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,994, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electric vehicle energy storage systems including dc-dc power converters operable in selected operating modes" was invented by Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Mohamed Ahmed Kamel Ahmed (Birmingham, Mich.), Muhammad Hussain Alvi (Troy, Mich.) and Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system includes a plurality of batteries coupled in series, a plurality of DC-DC power converters each having first and second sides, a DC bus coupled to the second sides of the DC-DC power converters, and at least one c...