US Patent Issued to The Boeing on June 9 for "Battery management systems and methods" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,755, issued on June 9, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Battery management systems and methods" was invented by Michael E. Moore (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system includes thermal batteries, sensors, a clock, a processor, and memory storing a data structure, and is configured to receive energy parameters and time data, calculate a rate of energy usage of the thermal batteries based on the received data, and execute battery commands to activate or disable selected thermal batteries. Energy usage data can be stored as individual data points over time, and battery commands can be r...