ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,608, issued on March 3, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).
"System, program, and management method" was invented by Takaya Saito (Tokyo), Yoshiki Takayanagi (Tokyo) and Shuntaro Miyakawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system comprising: a management unit that manages a plurality of battery packs, which are connected in parallel to a bus to which a power generation unit and a load are connected, to have the plurality of battery packs being alternately discharged so that a voltage difference between a battery pack with a highest voltage and a battery pack with a lowest voltage among the plurality of battery pa...