ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,973, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Energy storage system and method for controlling energy storage system" was invented by Jianshan Li (Shanghai), He Zhou (Shanghai), Shijiang Yu (Shanghai) and Zhipeng Wu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system and a method for controlling the energy storage system, includes a plurality of energy storage units. The energy storage unit includes a plurality of battery cells, a plurality of balancing units, a voltage conversion unit, a first switch, a second switch, and a control unit. The control unit i...