US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 21 for "Mixed chemistry battery pack power transfer using a multilevel T-type inverter" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,317, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Mixed chemistry battery pack power transfer using a multilevel T-type inverter" was invented by Rashmi Prasad (Troy, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Junghoon Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Khorshed Mohammed Alam (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a first battery pack connected to a second battery pack via T-type multi-level inverter. The multi-level inverter has a plurality of inverter legs, with each inverter leg being arranged in a T-type topology. A motor is connected to ...