ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,326, issued on June 10, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for controlling electrical connection of battery packs" was invented by Faisal Altaf (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden), Adam Josefsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jonas Enerback (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Bassem Farag (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling electrical connection of at least two battery packs (202, 203) of an energy storage System (200) of a vehicle (201) to a common load during operation of the vehicle, each one of the battery packs being connectable to the load via at least one respective switching device, the...