US Patent Issued to BEAM GLOBAL on Sept. 30 for "Fast charging batteries at low temperatures with battery pack preheating" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,549, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BEAM GLOBAL (San Diego).

"Fast charging batteries at low temperatures with battery pack preheating" was invented by Said Al-Hallaj (Chicago), Mohamad M. Salameh (Torrance, Calif.), Samuel T. Plunkett (Chicago), Chengxiu Chen (Chicago) and Stoyan Stoyanov (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for charging a battery pack including a plurality of electrochemical cells distributed within a thermal management composite matrix, including a phase change material. The method operates upon determining that a battery pack temperature and/or voltage measurement is below a predet...