ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,672, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).
"Short circuit protection system for battery packs" was invented by Murat Kubilay Ozguc (Istanbul) and Derya Ahmet Kocabas (Istanbul).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A short circuit protection system for high voltage battery packs which is semiconductor based and provides protection with a faster response time, comprises a desaturation circuit comprising a resistor, a capacitor, and a diode, a MOSFET connected with the desaturation circuit, a driver for driving the MOSFET, a gate resistor with one end connected with the driver and another end connected with ...