US Patent Issued to Lightyear IPCo on June 24 for "Bidirectional converter for a battery management system" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,721, issued on June 24, was assigned to Lightyear IPCo B.V. (Helmond, Netherlands).

"Bidirectional converter for a battery management system" was invented by Marald Otten (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a battery management system for an electric vehicle comprising a high voltage battery, low voltage battery and a bidirectional converter. The bidirectional converter is configured to connect the high voltage battery to the low voltage battery and to generate a power flow between the high voltage battery and the low voltage battery. The bidirectional converter is further configured to mon...