ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,125, issued on May 6, was assigned to CUMMINS INC. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Battery pack selection for pre-charging of DC bus" was invented by Pramod Suresh Magadi (Indianapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for selecting a battery pack that is used to pre-charge a high-voltage DC bus of an electric vehicle. A round-robin architecture is disclosed that prevents repeat selection of battery packs in order to prevent burnout of a resistor of the battery pack resulting from rapid subsequent pre-charging events. The system and method provided includes an easy solution that is scalable to a sy...