ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,233, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Battery system and method for operating the same" was invented by Jurgen Fritz (Graz, Austria), Renato Mandic (Graz, Austria), Peter Kurcik (Sankt Nikolai im Sausal, Austria), Thomas Trathnigg (Graz, Austria), Michael Haindl (Hartberg, Austria) and Pramod Srinivas (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes: a battery management system comprising a DC/DC converter and a system basis chip; a microcontroller connected to the system basis chip to receive power from the system basis chip; and a relay driver configured to c...