ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,225, issued on July 21, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Management device and power supply system" was invented by Hiroshi Takao (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Management device manages storage modules each parallel-connected to power supply through switch. Determination unit of management device, in a state where switches connected to some of power storage modules in the power storage modules are on; and switches connected to the remaining power storage modules are off, when at least one of the off-state switches are turned on, determination unit does not permit the ...