US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG SDI on March 24 for "Switch control device and battery pack including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,186, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Switch control device and battery pack including the same" was invented by Kiseon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch control device includes a retention circuit configured to generate a trigger signal based on a fault signal indicating whether a fault indicated by a power signal occurred, generate a reset signal based on the trigger signal, store a present value of a driving signal at a time during a duration of an active edge of the trigger signal, and output the stored driving signal as a retention signal durin...