ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,752, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sion Power Corp. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Multiplexed charge discharge battery management system" was invented by Yuriy V. Mikhaylik (Tucson, Ariz.), Glenn Alan Hamblin (Tucson, Ariz.), Chariclea Scordilis-Kelley (Tucson, Ariz.) and John Joseph Christopher Kopera (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system comprising: at least one battery comprising two or more sets of cells, each set of cells comprising one or more cells; a multiplexing switch apparatus connected to each set of cells; and at least one controller configured to use the multiplexing switch apparatus to select...