US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 4 for "Simplified switching for state of charge balancing of battery strings and modules" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,162, issued on March 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Simplified switching for state of charge balancing of battery strings and modules" 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: at least two battery modules, where each of the at least two battery modules includes three strings of battery cells; and a switch control module configured to: determine state of charges (SOCs) of the strings of battery cells, respectively; determine, using model predictive cont...