ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,616, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dongguan NVT Technology Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for detecting internal short circuit of battery, electronic apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Boyang Liu (Dongguan, China) and Xiaojie Tan (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting internal short circuit of a battery, includes: discharging a battery with a first current I1 at a moment t1; calculating a first discharge voltage drop triangleV1 of the battery at a moment t1+dt; discharging the battery with a second current I2 at a moment t2, where I1not equal toI2; calculating a second discharge volta...