ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,822, issued on July 8, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Cell sampling circuit, circuit fault early warning method, and battery management system" was invented by Yihua Cai (Ningde, China) and Feidan Gao (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell sampling circuit includes a plurality of target units sequentially connected in a series connection in a daisy-chain communication manner and one or more transformer units each connected between two successive target units of the plurality of target units. Each of the target units is configured to acquire an impedance of at least one tran...