ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,382, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Greenworks (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd (Changzhou, China).

"Voltage balancing system" was invented by Ming Luo (Jiangsu, China), Chuanjun Liu (Jiangsu, China) and Xian Zhuang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a voltage balancing system for balancing controlling of voltage of battery cells including a first set of battery cells and a second set of battery cells connected in series. The system includes a high-side analog front end (AFE) connected to the first set of battery cells, a low-side analog front end (AFE) connected to the second set of battery cells, a microcontro...