ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,484, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Battery imbalance diagnosis and mitigation" was invented by Rasoul Salehi (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Steven Earl Muldoon (Royal Oak, Mich.), Yue-Yun Wang (Troy, Mich.) and Wen-Chiao Lin (Rochester Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for battery imbalance diagnosis and mitigation. In one embodiment, the techniques involve isolating, via a first isolation unit, a first battery cell from a plurality of battery cells, determining, via a complex impedance measurement unit, a state of health of the first battery cell, and contro...