ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,072, issued on July 1, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).
"System and method for charging a battery pack" was invented by William Rigdon (Baltimore), Lisa M. King (Towson, Md.), Bhanuprasad V. Gorti (Perry Hall, Md.), Brian K. Wohltmann (Shrewsbury, Pa.), Hussein M. Nosair (Parkville, Md.) and Michael Muilwyk (Felton, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to charging a battery pack by determining a battery pack identification (ID) value from a battery pack identification (ID) component of the battery pack, applying a sinusoidal AC excitation signal to a set of battery cells of the...