ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,198, issued on July 14, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR (U.S.) INC. (San Francisco).

"Intelligent battery management systems and methods" was invented by Rohit Kadam (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Adam Detrick (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system for managing an AC block including a plurality of battery storage units and a power conversion system and an AC block managed by the system. The system includes a plurality of battery management controllers each assigned to a battery storage unit in the AC block and manages status information of the corresponding battery storage unit. Each batt...