US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Sept. 9 for "Battery including smart battery cells with full-bridge configured for charge/discharge and bypass states, and method thereof" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,935, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Battery including smart battery cells with full-bridge configured for charge/discharge and bypass states, and method thereof" was invented by Narendar Rao Gannamaneni (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jonas Forssell (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques that facilitate smartcell battery architectures and methodologies are provided. In various embodiments, a battery can comprise a positive terminal and a negative terminal. In various aspects, the battery can further comprise a set of smart battery cells that are serially coupled ...