ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,017, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TAE Technologies Inc. (Foothill Ranch, Canada).

"Advanced battery charging on modular levels of energy storage systems" was invented by Rainer Fasching (Mill Valley, Calif.), Roozbeh Naderi (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Mikhail Slepchenkov (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Ghyrn Loveness (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments that provide advanced charging of energy source arrangements for energy storage applications are disclosed. The embodiments can be used within energy storage systems having a cascaded arrangement of converter modules. The embodiments can include the applicat...