US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin Energy on July 1 for "Redox flow battery with floating power module under imbalanced charge conditions" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,908, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Energy LLC (Bethesda, Md.).

"Redox flow battery with floating power module under imbalanced charge conditions" was invented by Jonathan Hamel (Cambridge, Mass.), Kyra Coffey Holmquest (Somerville, Mass.) and Kevin Hartley Beverage (Sterling, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed, in certain embodiments, to a flow cell battery system. A battery management system detects that a first power module and a second power module located adjacent to the first power module are operating at different states of charge. After determining that the second power m...