ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,171, issued on July 15, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery diagnosing apparatus and method" was invented by A-Ming Cha (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yoon-Jung Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery diagnosing apparatus includes a profile generating unit configured to obtain a battery profile representing a corresponding relationship between voltage and capacity of a battery, and generate a differential profile representing a corresponding relationship between the voltage and a differential capacity for the voltage based on the obtained battery profile, and a control unit co...