ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,297, issued on March 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Battery monitoring system" was invented by Tatsuhiro Numata (Kariya, Japan) and Shunichi Kubo (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a battery monitoring system including a plurality of battery modules each including one or more cells, the battery modules are connected in series to each other. The battery monitoring system monitors the state of each cell based on the voltage value of the cell and the current value of the battery modules. A current detection unit detects the current value. Each voltage detection unit is associated with the corresponding ...