ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,715, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Battery monitoring apparatus" was invented by Fumihiko Hori (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring apparatus is provided for monitoring unit batteries of an assembled battery which are grouped into battery blocks. The battery monitoring apparatus includes a battery ECU, voltage monitors each being mounted to a corresponding one of the battery blocks, and a monitor activation device. The battery ECU is configured to wirelessly transmit commands to the voltage monitors. The voltage monitors are configured to detect voltage information of th...