ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,770, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery diagnosis method and battery system applying the same" was invented by Sung Ju Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Geon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyo Seong An (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The battery diagnosis method includes calculating, by a battery management system (BMS), a plurality of direct current internal resistances (DCIRs) respectively with respect to a plurality of battery cells based on a plurality of cell voltages and a plurality of cell currents, deriving, by the BMS,...