ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,832, issued on April 22, was assigned to TAIWAN TRUEWIN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Total voltage follow-up charging method and system" was invented by Fang-Chi Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method and system for charging rechargeable battery cells in series. When the voltage of a specific battery cell is too high, discharge the specific battery cell, and at the same time let other battery cells with lower voltage continue to charge, so that each battery cell in series can be charged to almost the same level. This invention designs in a "Total voltage follow-up char...