US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on April 22 for "On-board charger and DC-DC converter architecture for balancing of voltages or currents between batteries in electric vehicle battery systems" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,831, issued on April 22, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"On-board charger and DC-DC converter architecture for balancing of voltages or currents between batteries in electric vehicle battery systems" was invented by Narendar Rao Gannamaneni (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ali Dareini (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Lars Johan Henrik Sjostedt (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle battery system is provided. In some embodiments, the electric vehicle battery system can comprise a battery pack comprising a first battery and a second battery. In various embodiments, a first bidirectional direct curren...