ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,197, issued on July 14, was assigned to NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Fujian, China).

"System and method for wake-up control of parallel battery packs" was invented by Haoming Tang (Dongguan City, China), Wanjia Wang (Dongguan City, China) and Jianping Zhang (Dongguan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for wake-up control of parallel battery packs includes a first battery pack and a second battery pack connected in parallel. The first battery pack includes a first control unit, and the second battery pack includes a second control unit. The first battery pack is configured to receive a first trigger signal to wake ...