ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,206, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Liftwave Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).
"Battery balancing system" was invented by Blake Sessions (Boston) and Boris Gladstein (Swampscott, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a battery management system that can balance a string of battery cells rapidly, at high power, and without the use of a large auxiliary battery or excessive switches/transistors. A single switched tap is provided at each intermediate node of the battery string, allowing charging and discharging of subsets of the battery string (e.g., cell 1, cells 1 and 2, cells 1-3, etc.). A common charge/discharge ...