ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,257, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Methods of master battery unit and module battery unit management, and battery system" was invented by Sunmin Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a module battery management unit includes randomly selecting one number from among assignable identification numbers in response to an identifier assignment command, assigning the selected number as a temporary identifier, transmitting a first message including the temporary identifier in response to an identifier transmission command, receiving messages tra...