US Patent Issued to American Energy Storage Innovations on May 20 for "Grid energy storage system featuring massively parallel-connected cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,474, issued on May 20, was assigned to American Energy Storage Innovations Inc. (Hudson, Mass.).

"Grid energy storage system featuring massively parallel-connected cells" was invented by C. Michael Hoff (Boxborough, Mass.), Greg Tremelling (Berlin, Mass.), Bud Collins (Berlin, Mass.), Scott H. Reitsma (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Erik Nelson (Upton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system architecture for grid electrical energy storage comprising substantial numbers of cells connected in parallel. The lowest level of modularity comprising about eighteen or more individual cells connected in parallel. The disclosed architecture reduc...