ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,731, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery apparatus, battery management system, and method for diagnosing connection status" was invented by Minwoo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Bo Hyun Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Seunghyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Youn Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a battery apparatus, a battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules and a bus-bar connecting two battery modules among the plurality of battery modules. A wire connects the battery pack and the switch for controlling current supply of the battery pack. A vol...