ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,679, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Battery monitoring apparatus" was invented by Yuuki Hori (Kariya, Japan) and Masaki Uchiyama (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring apparatus is provided for a secondary battery that produces a change in reaction heat at a predetermined capacity when a storage capacity changes in accompaniment with a current conduction. The battery monitoring apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires, during the current conduction, an impedance change of the secondary battery; and a capacity determination unit that determines, based on the im...