ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,004, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Battery circuit, cell balance control system, and state estimation apparatus" was invented by Sho Ozaki (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery circuit including: a cell group composed of a plurality of battery cells C connected in series; a resistor group composed of a plurality of resistors R connected in series; and a connection/disconnection section configured to connect the cell group to the resistor group disconnectably, in which the connection/disconnection section is configured to be capable of changing a number of the resistors R ...