US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 1 for "Bi-capacitor design for fast state of charge equalization" (Chinese, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,528, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Bi-capacitor design for fast state of charge equalization" was invented by Jingyuan Liu (Shanghai), Qili Su (Shanghai), Dave G. Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Si Chen (Shanghai), James Morrison (Sebringville, Canada), Dewen Kong (Shanghai) and Haijing Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state of charge (SOC) balancing system includes: first and second batteries; first and second capacitors; an SOC module configured to determine first and second SOCs of the first and second batteries, respectively; and a switching module configured to s...