US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 26 for "Information processing apparatus and OCV adjustment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,676, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and OCV adjustment method" was invented by Tatsuya Jinno (Wako, Japan), Takumi Shiiyama (Wako, Japan) and Ryuichi Kimata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus is provided. Acquisition means acquires first information regarding OCVs of a plurality of secondarily used vehicle batteries. Determination means determines a combination of the vehicle batteries based on the first information such that the OCV of the vehicle batteries falls within a target range with charging and discharging between the v...