US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Aug. 26 for "Acoustic wave-based battery management" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,227, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Acoustic wave-based battery management" was invented by Bogdan I. Epureanu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ganghyeok Im (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Wei Lu (Northville, Mich.) and Bogdan Ioan Popa (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell in which a liquid electrolyte is disposed and an acoustic transducer in mechanical communication with the battery cell. The acoustic transducer is configured to generate acoustic waves. The acoustic waves have a wavelength larger than a dimension of the battery cell such that the acoustic waves ge...