ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,615, issued on March 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Current sensors for battery cells of a vehicle battery system" was invented by Mohamed Ahmed Kamel Ahmed (Birmingham, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.) and Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system for an electric vehicle includes at least one battery cell configured to store charge for powering an electric vehicle, a high voltage bus electrically coupled with the at least one battery, a DC-DC converter electrically coupled with the battery cell, a low voltage bus electrically connected between th...