ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,599, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for measuring internal resistance of battery cells in variable number unit in online state" was invented by Junghoon Ahn (Jeollanam-do, South Korea), Sunggeun Song (Gwangju, South Korea), Byungchul Park (Gwangju, South Korea), Kyoochang Jeong (Gwangju, South Korea) and Seongmun Oh (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring the internal resistance of battery cells in a variable number unit in an online state is proposed. The apparatus may include a switch array, a variable resistor,...