ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,977, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management system and battery pack" was invented by Hyun Ki Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Dong Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Keun Wook Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a battery management system and a battery pack and the battery management system includes: a pack voltage sampling unit for periodically sampling a pack voltage of a battery pack; a pack current sampling unit for sampling a pack current of the battery pack; and a control unit for, when the pack voltage sampling of the battery pack is c...