US Patent Issued to Queens's University at Kingston on July 28 for "Battery capacity controller for multiple portable power stations" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,340, issued on July 28, was assigned to Queens's University at Kingston (Kingston, Canada).

"Battery capacity controller for multiple portable power stations" was invented by Yan-Fei Liu (Kingston, Canada), Binghui He (Kingston, Canada), Yang Chen (Hefei, China) and Bo Sheng (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and controllers manage battery capacities of two or more portable power station (PPS) units connected together in a parallel arrangement to produce a total output current, wherein a first PPS unit operates as a voltage source and each of a second or more PPS unit operates as a current source. Each PPS unit ...