US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 11 for "Switching of battery strings and modules when a fault is diagnosed in a battery string" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,854, issued on March 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Switching of battery strings and modules when a fault is diagnosed in a battery string" was invented by Jun-mo Kang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Chen-Fang Chang (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Dave G. Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

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