ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,434, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHENZHEN KSTAR NEW ENERGY COMPANY Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Battery pack parallel circuit and design method therefor, battery, and charge/discharge system" was invented by Chengyu Liu (Shenzhen, China), Guanqing Guo (Shenzhen, China), Jianliang Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Quangeng Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack parallel circuit is connected to a charge/discharge apparatus. The circuit includes a battery module formed by multiple battery packs connected in parallel, and battery packs located at two ends of the battery module are a first end battery pack and a seco...