US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Jan. 28 for "Method and system for detecting connection fault of parallel connection cells" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,978, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for detecting connection fault of parallel connection cells" was invented by Jeong Wan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and system for detecting connection failure of a parallel connection cell, and for a battery that is being discharged by the operation of an external device, by detecting whether there is a section matching the amount of change in the discharge voltage value when a cell connection failure condition occurs due to a pre-prepared current interruption device (CID) operati...