US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and method for controlling step charging of secondary battery" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,438, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling step charging of secondary battery" was invented by Jin-Hyung Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gi-Min Nam (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyoung Jun Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyu-Chul Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Won-Tae Joe (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling step charging of a secondary battery. A charging control unit determines a SOC, an OCV and a polarization voltage of the secondary battery, determines an OCV...