ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,752, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to STL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Protection circuit for battery module" was invented by Wen-Fan Chang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chun-Chieh Li (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Jung-Nan Chien (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a protection circuit applied to a battery module, which includes a self-control protector, a switch element and a voltage clamping loop; the self-control protector includes a fuse unit and a heater; when the switch element receives a control signal, the switch element will be turned on; when the switch eleme...