ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,818, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management apparatus and method" was invented by Kyung-Hwa Woo (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yoon-Jung Bae (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a side reaction determining unit configured to determine a target peak in a differential profile representing a corresponding relationship between voltage and differential capacity of a battery, and determine whether a side reaction occurs in the battery by comparing a criterion peak of a preset criterion profile with the ...