ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,837, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CALB Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and device for estimating state of power of battery system" was invented by Ruijun Ma (Changzhou, China) and Fangfang Pan (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a method and a device for estimating the SOP of a battery system, which may effectively track the OCV change and impedance change under the current operating conditions of the battery system based on the amount of lithium intercalation in multiple predetermined positions in the active material in the battery of the battery system in the current operating condition...