US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for battery cell formation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,763, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for battery cell formation" was invented by Qinglin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Amir Masoud Bozorgi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery cell formation can include forming a SEI layer in a battery cell, evaluating the cell quality, grading the cells and removing any defect cells. A first switch can connect a first terminal of a battery charger with a first terminal of a first cell. A second switch can connect a second terminal of the first cell with a third switch. The second switch can connect a second cell wit...