US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on March 3 for "Balancing, precharge and active discharge operation of split HV battery systems in electric vehicles" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,120, issued on March 3, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Balancing, precharge and active discharge operation of split HV battery systems in electric vehicles" was invented by Narendar Rao Gannamaneni (Gothenburg, Sweden) and David Martin Gonzalez (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit enabling precharge, active discharge and battery balancing operations in a single subcircuit is described. According to one or more embodiments, a circuit is provided comprising a first battery comprising a positive terminal coupled to a positive transmission line and a negative terminal coupled to a common no...