ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,129, issued on April 1, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Battery monitoring apparatus and identification information giving method" was invented by Jun Suzuki (Hitachinaka, Japan), Tsuyoshi Takaku (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Koichi Takahashi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery monitoring apparatus includes: battery state detection devices configured to detect states of battery modules: a control device wirelessly connected to a plurality of the battery state detection devices to manage the states of the battery modules; and a processing unit configured to give, to the battery state dete...