ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,017, issued on June 10, was assigned to FLUX POWER INC. (Vista, Calif.).

"System and method for charge balancing a battery pack over time" was invented by Paul Thomas Geantil (San Diego) and Jaime Andrew Lerma (Murrieta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling charging of a plurality of battery cells includes a cell voltage detector determining a top-of-charge voltage for each of the plurality of battery cells. An imbalance circuit compares the top-of-charge voltage for each of the plurality of battery cells to an imbalance threshold and determines a first battery cell of the plurality of battery cel...