ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,946, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for operating a switching arrangement" was invented by Emil Lidstrom (Torslanda, Sweden) and Ana Dolado (Las Rosas de Madrid, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a switching arrangement of an energy storage system including a common traction voltage bus and a plurality of parallelly arranged battery packs connectable to the common traction voltage bus is provided. The switching arrangement comprising an associated contactor for each battery pack, the contactors being configured to connect the battery packs to and from the c...