ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,327, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Battery monitoring system" was invented by Ichiro Yamada (Kariya, Japan), Nobuo Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan) and Shuhei Yoshida (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring system monitors states of at least two secondary batteries. In the system, a data acquiring unit acquires a plurality of types of monitoring data to monitor the state of each of the secondary batteries. A failure determining unit determines whether the secondary battery has failed. The failure determining unit performs sparsity regularization using the acquired monitoring data ...