US Patent Issued to C&C Power on May 27 for "Battery-string midpoint voltage measurement apparatus and method" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,690, issued on May 27, was assigned to C&C Power Inc. (Carol Stream, Ill.).

"Battery-string midpoint voltage measurement apparatus and method" was invented by William Fechalos (Carol Stream, Ill.) and Charles McPherson (Carol Stream, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mid-string voltage sensor is disposed in proximity to a storage-battery string and determines an error signal between the expected mid-string voltage and the actual mid-string voltage to aid in detecting faults in one or more of the batteries of the string. Each sensor is connected to or close to the battery string terminals and to a terminal at the midpoint of the g...