ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,435, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery control apparatus and battery control method" was invented by Dong-In Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery control apparatuses may include a measuring unit for measuring a voltage of a battery, a memory for storing a multi-stage charging protocol data, and a processor for identifying a SOC of the battery based on the voltage measurement value. The processor may perform a temporary discharging procedure, when the SOC of the battery reaches the first criterion SOC while the constant current charging procedure us...