US Patent Issued to ZTE on April 21 for "Series-parallel battery system" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,542, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Series-parallel battery system" was invented by Yong Gong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A series-parallel battery system includes: a switch (1), a series-parallel battery (2) and a charge and discharge management circuit (3). The series-parallel battery (2) includes a battery combination management circuit (23) and at least two batteries connected to each other. The battery combination management circuit (23) is connected to the batteries. One battery in the series-parallel battery (2) includes a second battery cell (22) and a third protection c...