US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 10 for "Battery management system and battery management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,026, issued on June 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery management system and battery management method" was invented by Junta Izumi (Nagoya, Japan), Kenji Kimura (Nagoya, Japan), Masakazu Habu (Toyota, Japan), Masanosuke Sufu (Toyota, Japan) and Makito Muramatsu (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery cellar includes a storage cabinet that stores a plurality of batteries, a power converter (an AC/DC converter and a DC/DC converter) electrically connected between the plurality of batteries stored in the storage cabinet and a power system to perform a bidirectional power conversion opera...