US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for diagnosing voltage sensors of a device battery having a plurality of battery cells" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,868, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for diagnosing voltage sensors of a device battery having a plurality of battery cells" was invented by Christian Simonis (Leonberg, Germany) and Christoph Woll (Gerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring cell voltage sensors (31) of a battery system (1) comprising a device battery (2) having a plurality of battery cells (21), comprising the following steps: continuous monitoring (Si) of the device battery (2) to detect a faulty cell voltage sensor (31) with a voltage offset above a predetermined thresh...