ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,698, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Battery management apparatus and method" was invented by Hee-Seok Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Yoon-Jung Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and A-Ming Cha (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management apparatus and method performs appropriate control to increase the lifespan of a battery cell by judging whether degradation of the battery cell is accelerated. Since both the voltage change pattern and the differential capacity change pattern between the plurality of peaks included in the plurality of differential profiles are con...