ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,279, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Communication for battery cell circuit using a comparison result value" was invented by Markus Ekler (Feldkirchen, Germany), Christian Walther (Munich) and Christian Heiling (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell circuit of a battery management system configured to receive, from a previous battery cell circuit of a plurality of battery cell circuits connected in a daisy chain configuration or ring configuration, an instruction requesting a value for the battery cell circuit and determine a comparison result value based on a c...