ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,991, issued on Oct. 21.
"Functional safety in a battery management system" was invented by Luis Espaillat (North Attleboro, Mass.), Jonathan M. Rigelsford (Sheffield, Great Britain) and Jing Deng (Belfast, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a particular embodiment, functional safety in a battery management system includes a network controller of a battery management system (BMS) receiving from a module monitoring system (MMS) of the BMS, a message that includes a first set of data type blocks. In this embodiment, the network controller determines for the first set of data type blocks, a block sequence order that indicate...