ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,481, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Pulsed current battery management system" was invented by John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas), Eric J. King (Austin, Texas) and Emmanuel Marchais (Dripping Springs, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management system, may include an input configured to couple to a power supply, an output configured to couple to a battery, and battery management circuitry coupled between the power supply and the battery and configured to deliver electrical energy to the output at a significantly higher peak-to-average power ratio than receipt of electrical energy t...