ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,579, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to improve one-hop extension in wireless battery management systems" was invented by Ariton Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Jyothsna Kunduru (Plano, Texas), Minghua Fu (Plano, Texas) and Jonathan Nafziger (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve one-hop extension in wireless battery management systems. An example apparatus is to cause transmission of an instruction to a first battery monitoring node (BMN) of a vehicle, the first BMN in communica...