ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,435, issued on June 23, was assigned to URBAN ELECTRIC POWER INC. (Pearl River, N.Y.).
"System to charge cells assembled into a battery" was invented by Valerio De Angelis (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Irving Derin (New York), Sullivan Fleming (New York) and Sanjoy Banerjee (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger for a plurality of cells comprises a plurality of cells, a plurality of DC power sources, a common DC source in electrical communication with each of the plurality of DC power sources, and a CPU configured to selectively control the connection between each DC power source and the corresponding cell. Each DC power sourc...