US Patent Issued to KYOCERA AVX Components on Sept. 1 for "System and method for balancing ultracapacitors employing a switched charge shuttling capacitor" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,035, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOCERA AVX Components Corp. (Fountain Inn, S.C.).

"System and method for balancing ultracapacitors employing a switched charge shuttling capacitor" was invented by Joseph M. Hock (Surfside Beach, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for balancing ultracapacitors includes a balancing capacitor and a plurality of switching devices. The system further includes a control circuit. The control circuit is communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of switching devices. The control circuit is configured to control operation of a first pair of the switching devices to couple the balancing...