ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,525, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery device" was invented by Jeong Wook Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Choon Kwon Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery apparatus includes: a plurality of battery cells; a battery management system (BMS) for managing the plurality of battery cells; and a connection controller for sequentially connecting the plurality of battery cells to the BMS, and the connection controller connects a corresponding battery cell to the BMS according to a potential of a lower battery cell and a po...