US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on July 14 for "Internal battery heating comprising a parallel and a series arrangement" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,204, issued on July 14, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Internal battery heating comprising a parallel and a series arrangement" was invented by Charles Bernard Beuning (Wichita, Kan.), Vernon Weng-Yew Chang (Wichita, Kan.) and Robby Dale Starr (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An internal battery heating system includes an electrical conversion device electrically coupled to an electrochemical sub-cell or battery modules to form a heating circuit. The electrical conversion device alternately raises and lowers a voltage of the heating circuit to drive current between the heating circuit and t...