ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,903, issued on July 29, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Discharge control method and charge control method of battery pack control system" was invented by Wei Ye (Ningde, China), Bo Zeng (Ningde, China), Shuting Sun (Ningde, China), Jihai Xie (Ningde, China) and Yongchao Li (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discharging control method and a charging control method for a battery pack control system are provides. The battery pack control system includes a master battery management unit and multiple slave battery management units. The master battery management unit controls the...