ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,581, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Battery balancing for multi-battery systems" was invented by Shaheen Moubedi (Los Angeles), Gerald Nilles (Culver City, Calif.) and Stephen Pomes (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closed loop control system actively regulates the battery current paths of physically separated circuits so that the current is approximately the same for each of the circuits regardless of the various system loads. The closed loop control system modulates the current paths by either modulating a high side transistor used to independently limit each battery's cur...