US Patent Issued to Volvo Construction Equipment on June 24 for "Dual voltage electrical architecture for a vehicle, in which the only power source is a lithium-ion battery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,774, issued on June 24, was assigned to Volvo Construction Equipment AB (Eskilstuna, Sweden).

"Dual voltage electrical architecture for a vehicle, in which the only power source is a lithium-ion battery" was invented by Lilian Bruyere (Belley, France), Ahcene Nedjimi (Lyons, France) and Xavier Morel (Saint-Didier-de-la-Tour, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual voltage electrical architecture for a vehicle, including a low-voltage network, a high-voltage network and a DC/DC converter for transferring power from the high-voltage network to the low-voltage network, the electrical architecture further including a lithium-ion bat...