ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,674, issued on May 20, was assigned to Moment Energy Inc. (Canada).

"Active energy balancing for energy storage systems" was invented by Grayson Reid Halliday (Burnaby, Canada) and Gabriel Giles Soares (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and circuits described herein provide energy transfer to balance batteries of an energy storage system. A system can include a circuit coupled with a first battery cell and a second battery cell. The circuit can include a charge unit to store energy transferred between the first and the second battery cells, a first node of the charge unit coupled with the first and the...