ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,120, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power distribution device and method using droop control" was invented by Jongcheol Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeungil Jo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Inho Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power distribution apparatus may comprise a converter configured to perform DC-DC conversion between a battery and a power conversion system; and a controller configured to set a droop curve for controlling an output of the converter based on a state of each battery, wherein the converter is configured to receive and store information on...