ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,274, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Low-cost balancing control for distributed low voltage system with bi-directional converters to support multiple low voltage busses" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Lyall Kenneth Winger (Waterloo, Canada) and Dave Gerard Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an electrical system for balancing a state of charge in a battery pack. The electrical system includes a plurality of module groups. A switch array includes a plurality of switches. Each switch is coupled to a respective module group. T...