ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,572, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Shanghai Marine Equipment Research Institute (Shanghai).

"Comprehensive control method and system for direct current (DC) power grid of pure battery of ship" was invented by Bin Hu (Shanghai), Zhilin Zeng (Shanghai), Shaoyuan Wang (Shanghai), Zhongling Liu (Shanghai) and Jian Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comprehensive control method and system for a direct current (DC) power grid of a pure battery of a ship are provided. Four modular battery packs are configured to connect to corresponding busbars, and four propulsion inverters, an axle-hung propulsion motor, two domestic inverte...