US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Battery management system for converting a high voltage battery back to low voltage output" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,429, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Battery management system for converting a high voltage battery back to low voltage output" was invented by Sanjeewa Keven Sugatapala (Long Beach, Calif.), Baojin Wang (San Marcos, Calif.), Kyle Lobo (Westchester, Calif.), Todd Adams Putnam (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) and Ajay Kumar (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a DC to DC converter that converts a high voltage level from a battery pack to a relatively lower voltage level for various components of a vehicle. The DC to DC converter may provide an alternate power supply in a...