ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,587, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lithium Power Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Battery controller with multi-level redundancy" was invented by Minghung Ho (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system and method for enabling a battery system to overcome single point failure in its control system and to deliver electrical charges steadily through redundancy implementation. The battery management system has redundant hardware devices, including multiple microcontrollers (MCU) connected to multiple controller area (CAN) network buses. An active MCU periodically checks health information from a standby MCU...