ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,766, issued on June 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Detection device" was invented by Toru Ogaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device configured to detect a decrease in heat insulation performance of a battery pack mounted at an electrically powered vehicle, the detection device including: a heat insulation performance derivation unit configured to derive a heat insulation performance value, which is an evaluation value of the heat insulation performance, based on a temperature change of the battery and an environmental temperature in a predetermined period in which the electrically powered vehicl...