ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,403, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Energy storage system and black start apparatus" was invented by Jianshan Li (Shanghai), Tong Yuan (Shanghai), Tao Zhang (Shanghai) and Shijiang Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system includes a battery cluster and a black start bus. The battery cluster includes a plurality of battery packs that are connected in series. A target battery pack in the plurality of battery packs carries a black start control. The black start control is configured to: when being triggered, electrically connect a target ene...