US Patent Issued to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 20 for "Battery balancing system and battery balancing control method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,151, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Battery balancing system and battery balancing control method" was invented by Chung-Jen Chou (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Chin Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shih-Hsin Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery balancing system includes a voltage sensing unit, a characteristic voltage selector and a control unit. The voltage sensing unit senses a battery voltage of each of the batteries connected in series in a battery group and generates corresponding battery voltage sensing signals. The characteristic voltage selector generates a char...