US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 22 for "Battery management system and battery management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,533, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery management system and battery management method" was invented by Tomoko Tamai (Tokyo), Takashi Komaru (Tokyo), Masanori Okabe (Tokyo), Eiji Teramoto (Tokyo) and Kohei Fukunishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A higher usage fee is set for external supply power as predetermined contract power increases. A battery management system includes: a contract power information acquisition section configured to acquire contract power information indicating the contract power; a power-in-use estimation section configured to estimate power in use in the storage ...