ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,687, issued on May 20, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery charge/discharge control device and battery management device" was invented by Sung Wook An (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong Uk Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a battery charge/discharge control device including a contactor driver which is on/off controlled according to AN output signal of a micro control unit (MCU), a contactor coil through which current flows according to an on/off state of the contactor driver, and whose one end is electrically connected to the contactor driver and the other e...