ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,272, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Battery cluster control" was invented by Mark Healy (Cork, Ireland), John Kizziar (Spokane, Wash.) and Paul Walsh (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a battery cluster controller includes a serial interface configured to receive waveform data and a rank over a serial communication bus, a processor configured to generate a switching parameter based on the rank and the waveform data, and a modulation unit configured with the switching parameter to generate a bridge configuration signal to control a ...