US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on Nov. 25 for "Bi-directional active battery cell balancer and method for bi-directional cell balancing" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,043, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Bi-directional active battery cell balancer and method for bi-directional cell balancing" was invented by Zhigang Liang (Fremont, Calif.), Jia Wei (Cary, N.C.), John H. Carpenter Jr. (Malabar, Fla.) and Masaya Emi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for balancing a pair of battery cells are described. A controller can determine a voltage difference based on a first voltage of a first battery cell and a second voltage of a second battery cell. The controller can determine a current difference between current of an induct...