US Patent Issued to Cummins on May 20 for "Integration of second-use of li-ion batteries in power generation" (Minnesota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,683, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Integration of second-use of li-ion batteries in power generation" was invented by V. Ramya Arvind (Columbus, Ind.) and Alyssa Marlenee Jenkins (Duluth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing second use batteries incudes communicating an external load demand to battery management modules (BMMs) of first use batteries and second use batteries; communicating, by each of the BMMs, the state of health (SoH) of the respective first or second use battery to the other BMMs; by the BMMs of the first use batteries with highest SoH, engaging the first use...