ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,590, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Battery monitoring system for bipolar batteries" was invented by Yong Lu (Shanghai), Meiyuan Wu (Shanghai), Zhe Li (Shanghai), Dave G. Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Haijing Liu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar battery system includes N battery cells. Each of the N battery cells comprises M cores each comprising a first current collector, cathode active material, a separator, anode active material, and a second current collector, where M is an integer greater than one. The M cores are connected in parallel by connecting the f...