US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on Feb. 4 for "Method for detecting defective battery cell and battery management system providing the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,173, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for detecting defective battery cell and battery management system providing the same" was invented by Bokyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting a detective battery cell among a plurality of battery cells that form a battery. The system includes: a cell monitoring IC that measures a cell voltage of each of the battery cells, and a main control circuit that detects a charge battery cell of which a cell voltage first reaches a charge final voltage, detects a discharge battery cell of which ...