US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on July 21 for "Battery system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,299, issued on July 21, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery system" was invented by Sagar Nagaluru (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Nitin Bharane (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Sandeep Vankineni (Northville, Mich.) and Bhavya Jampani (Warren, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes a battery subpack having first and second battery cells, a cell monitoring circuit, and a subpack microprocessor. The cell monitoring circuit obtains first and second voltage values. A first switch circuit applies an operational voltage to the subpack microprocessor in response to a first control signal from a ...