ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,860, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Controller integrated circuit for electric vehicle applications" was invented by Sumegh Kadam (Gothenburg, Sweden), Hicham Sadoun (Gothenburg, Sweden), Avishek Kumar Mohanty (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Narendar Rao Gannamaneni (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power and controller integrated circuits for electric vehicle applications are enabled. For example, a system can comprise a plurality of battery cells, and a plurality of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) electrically coupled to the plurality of battery cells, wherein on...