ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,678, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Distributed battery monitoring system" was invented by Leon Alexander Loopik (Delft, Netherlands), Pradeep Kotte-Prakasam (Frisco, Texas), Caspar Petrus Laurentius Van Vroonhoven (Munich), Christoph Sebastian Schwoerer (Grasbrunn, Germany) and James Michael Douglass (Lewisville, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring a complex impedance associated with an arrangement of battery or fuel cells in an energy storage system may include a controller, a current measurement device, and voltage measurement devices. The ...