ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,974, issued on March 24, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regenburg, Germany).

"Device for determining cell voltages across series-connected battery cells and method for determining cell voltages" was invented by Matthias Ridder (Eckental, Germany) and Magnus Jaster (Jaster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining cell voltages across series-connected battery cells of a cell stack is provided. The battery cells are combined to form packs having a plurality of series-connected battery cells. Each pack has an associated voltage measuring device for determining the cell voltages of the individual batte...