US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 9 for "Multiport battery" (Dutch, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,081, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Multiport battery" was invented by Evripidis Karanasios (Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands) and Ramon Ferre Vila (Les Borges del Camp, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes at least one battery cell, a bidirectional port configured to provide current output to a load from the at least one battery cell and to receive a charge current from a battery charger to charge the at least one battery cell, a charge only port configured to receive charge current from the battery charger to charge the at least one battery cell, and a battery control system. The b...