ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,684, issued on May 20, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Battery management infrastructure" was invented by David Giuliano (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Briefly, example architectures and/or circuit topologies are disclosed herein that may be implemented, in whole or in part, to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for battery management infrastructure, such as for use with one or more power converters, which may include, for example, one or more switched-capacitor power converters."

The patent was filed on March 23, 2022, under Application No. 18/551,958.

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