ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,865, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Elisa Oyj (Helsinki).
"Management of a distributed battery arrangement" was invented by Simon Holmbacka (Helsinki), Esko Heinonen (Helsinki) and Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a distributed battery arrangement, wherein the arrangement comprises a pool of battery assets. The arrangement allows capacity limits to be set for the battery assets. The capacity limits are a first capacity limit (C1) defining minimum charge that is to be maintained in the battery asset; and a second capacity limit (C2) defining maximum charge; wherein capacity fal...