ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,265, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery monitoring system for measuring carbon dioxide to detect imbalance in a group of parallel lithium-ion battery cells" was invented by Michelle H. Wiebenga (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Lei Wang (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Rasoul Salehi (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring system includes a carbon dioxide sensing system configured to selectively measure carbon dioxide concentrations within a plurality of battery cells, respectively, that are connected in parallel. A controller is configured to detect cathode over...