ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,010, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SANYO Electric Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Management device and power supply system" was invented by Masato Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In management device, voltage measurement circuit measures a voltage of each of a plurality of cells connected in series. A plurality of voltage measurement lines connect between respective nodes of the plurality of cells and respective voltage measurement terminals of voltage measurement circuit. A lower reference potential line connects between a lower node of lowermost cell of the plurality of cells and a lower reference terminal of ...