ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,771, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis).

"Energy storage system heater control architecture" was invented by Stephen Andrew Long (Indianapolis), Michael Dougherty (Indianapolis), Tomasz Marek Lubecki (Singapore), Firman Sasongko (Singapore), Chandana Jayampathi Gajanayake (Singapore) and Michael Adam Zagrodnik (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system for an energy storage system, the energy storage system comprising an energy storage device, an energy storage monitoring system including circuitry dedicated and configured to monitor a temperature of the energy storage device...