US Patent Issued to Element Energy on Aug. 12 for "Battery management controllers and associated methods" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,285, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Element Energy Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Battery management controllers and associated methods" was invented by Seth Marshall Kahn (Sonoma, Calif.), Corrado Cammi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Anthony John Stratakos (Edgartown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a plurality of batteries that are electrically coupled together includes (1) monitoring respective voltages of the plurality of batteries and (2) in response to a respective voltage of a first battery of the plurality of batteries reaching a first threshold value at a first time, reducing a charge or discharge ra...