ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,801, issued on May 27.

"Energy storage system employing battery packs" was invented by Yong Chul Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an energy storage system employing battery packs, comprising: battery packs; DC/DC power conversion units for adjusting magnitudes of charge/discharge power of the battery packs; an AC/DC power conversion unit for converting discharge power from the DC/DC power conversion units into AC power provided to a grid, or convert charge power from the grid into DC power provided to the DC/DC power conversion units; and an integrated control unit for individual...