US Patent Issued to DENSO on Dec. 30 for "Secondary battery deterioration degree determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,601, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Secondary battery deterioration degree determination device" was invented by Tomomi Asai (Kariya, Japan), Nobuo Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan), Hiroyasu Suzuki (Kariya, Japan), Katsuki Hayashi (Kariya, Japan) and Yuya Minabe (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deterioration degree determination device includes a charging and discharging control unit, a battery characteristic acquisition unit, and a determination unit. The charging and discharging control unit, in a state where multiple secondary batteries are connected to each other to form a battery pack, pe...