US Patent Issued to Huawei Digital Power Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Battery connection status detection circuit and method, battery, device, and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,468, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery connection status detection circuit and method, battery, device, and system" was invented by Shuhao Deng (Dongguan, China), Denghai Pan (Shenzhen, China) and Hong Tuo (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery includes a cell pack. The detection circuit includes a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a discharge unit, a sampling unit, an energy storage unit, and a controller. A first terminal of the first switch unit is connected to a first terminal of the cell pack. A second terminal of the first switch...