ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,414, issued on March 25, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Synchronization mechanism for continous battery stack measurements" was invented by Leon Alexander Loopik (Delft, Netherlands), Christoph Sebastian Schwoerer (Grasbrunn, Germany), Cuyler Nicholas Latorraca (Milpitas, Calif.) and Gerd Trampitsch (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described through which continuous gapless voltage measurements can be synchronized between devices with independent clock sources on an asynchronous bus by slightly adjusting a speed of a local clock source for a period of time. Also, a ...