ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,999, issued on April 29, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating an electrochemical energy storage system with a plurality of energy storage strings" was invented by Christoph Woll (Gerlingen, Germany) and Gunther Handte (Unterensingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an electrochemical energy storage system with a plurality of energy storage strings which comprise a plurality of electrochemical energy stores. The energy storage strings can be electrically connected in parallel by means of first switches."

The patent was filed on Aug. 31, 2023, under Application No. ...