US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 17 for "Battery string state of charge balancing with phase sharing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,759, issued on June 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery string state of charge balancing with phase sharing" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Charles W. Wampler II (Birmingham, Mich.) and Dave G. Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system includes: two battery modules, each including three strings of battery cells that are configured to, at different times be: connected in series and to a first positive terminal via first ones of switches; connected in parallel and to a second positive terminal via second ones of the switches; and disconnected f...