ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,478, issued on June 23, was assigned to Webasto SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Battery-monitoring unit" was invented by Martin Zoske (Stockdorf, Germany), Hans Beyer (Stockdorf, Germany), Jonas Keutmann (Stockdorf, Germany) and Felix Konig (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a battery-monitoring unit, comprising an interface which is configured to receive electrical voltages for each battery group comprising at least two battery cells being connected to each another in parallel and of a battery coupled with the battery-monitoring unit and comprising at least two battery groups, where an eval...