ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,855, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Yazaki Corp. (Tokyo).
"Battery control device and battery system" was invented by Takahiro Syouda (Susono, Japan) and Chihiro Ono (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery control device controls a battery system including a plurality of battery cells connected in series and a bypass circuit that bypasses each of the battery cells. Discharge is performed from each of the battery cells until remaining quantity of the battery cell decreases to a predetermined value. When the remaining quantity of the battery cell is decreased to the predetermined value, each of the battery cells i...