ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,161, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Titan Advanced Energy Solutions Inc. (Salem, Mass.).

"Ultrasound battery management systems (U-BMS), and energy storage systems employing U-BMS" was invented by Maura C. Appleberry (Louisville, Ky.), Thomas C. Ferree (Waltham, Mass.), Paul A. Paquette (Salisbury, Mass.), Sean M. O'Day (Boca Raton, Fla.), Shawn D. Murphy (Salem, Mass.) and Jeffrey A. Kowalski (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system can comprise a stack of multiple battery modules, a plurality of ultrasound emitter transducers, a plurality of ultrasound receiving transducers, one or more excitatio...