ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,856, issued on June 3, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. (Shiga, Japan).

"Chargeable battery state detection apparatus and chargeable battery state detection method" was invented by Noriyasu Iwane (Tokyo), Etsuzo Sato (Tokyo), Yuichi Watanabe (Shiga, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Sato (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chargeable battery state detection apparatus configured to detect a state of a chargeable battery is provided, comprising processor(s) and memorie(s) communicatively connected to the processor(s), wherein the processor(s) read out a group of instructions stored in...