US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Method of charging plurality of battery cells and controller for performing the method" (Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,040, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of charging plurality of battery cells and controller for performing the method" was invented by Oleg Petrakivskyi (Zhytomyr, Ukraine), Oleksandr Baiev (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine), Denys Zakutailo (Kyiv, Ukraine), Ivan Doroshenko (Chernihiv, Ukraine) and Kostyantyn Slyusarenko (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery charging circuit for charging batteries includes a first switch connected in series between a first pole of a power supply and a first pole of the first battery cell, a second switch connected in parallel betwe...