ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,482, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Distributed coulomb counter" was invented by Yijing Lin (Beijing), Yiwei Bai (Shanghai) and Yulei Nie (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a battery management system may include a host microcontroller, which may be operated in accordance with a first clock signal; and a first analog front end (AFE) circuit. The first AFE circuit may be operated in accordance with a second clock signal that may be unsynchronized with the first clock signal. The first AFE circuit may also include first digital circuitry to (1) accumu...