ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,031, issued on May 13, was assigned to Inventus Power Inc. (Woodridge, Ill.).

"Large-format battery management systems with gateway PCBA" was invented by William Tenorio (Glenview, Ill.) and Anvin Joe Manadan (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery system with a large-format Li-ion battery pack powers attached equipment by discharging battery cells distributed among a plurality of battery packs. A limp home notification is generated from a smart lithium-ion battery pack to one or more application devices using an analog signal. The battery pack may provide broadcast messages over electronic communication lines, that...