ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,016, issued on June 23, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Control of an heterogenous energy storage system" was invented by Shailesh Singh (Gothenburg, Sweden), Faisal Altaf (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden), Anton Klintberg (Torslanda, Sweden) and Adam Josefsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for controlling an energy storage system with heterogenous battery packs is provided. The system, using a processing circuitry, obtains pack-specific minimum and maximum allowed operating voltages for each battery pack; determines joint ESS-specific minimum and maximum voltage limits satisfyi...