ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,778, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Battery system including alternating current, fast-chargeable capacitor assisted batteries" was invented by Qili Su (Shanghai), Dewen Kong (Shanghai), Si Chen (Shanghai), Haijing Liu (Shanghai), Dave G. Rich (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Lyall K. Winger (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor assisted battery module includes a first diode including an anode and a cathode. A second diode includes an anode and a cathode. The anode of the first diode is connected to the cathode of the second diode at a first node. A first capacit...