ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,921, issued on March 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"One-hop extension" was invented by Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Torbjorn Sorby (Kolsas, Norway), Minghua Fu (Plano, Texas), Jesus Daniel Torres Bardales (Plano, Texas), Ramanuja Vedantham (Frisco, Texas), Alexis Justine Burnight (Dallas) and Archanaa Santhana Krishnan (Worcester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular battery management system (BMS) comprises a battery controller, a set of battery cells, a primary network node coupled to the battery controller, and a secondary network node coupled to the set of battery cells. The primary and seco...