ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,924, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Driving control device of relay for battery pack" was invented by Kyo Sung Koo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Duck Hyun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kwang Min Yoo (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Gi Ho Seo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving control device for a relay for a battery pack, includes: a buck-boost converter to receive a voltage from an auxiliary battery, and output a buck-boost voltage; a feedback control circuit electrically connected to the buck-boost converter, and to transfer a feedback voltage to the buck-boo...